[Infowarrior] - San Bernardino County Calls the FBI Liars Over Terrorist's iCloud Account

[Richard Forno]

San Bernardino County Calls the FBI Liars Over Terrorist's iCloud Account
Matt Novak
http://gizmodo.com/san-bernardino-county-calls-the-fbi-liars-over-terroris-1760317923

Late last night a Twitter account associated with San Bernardino County said that it worked under the direction of the FBI to reset Syed Farook’s iCloud password. Why does that matter? Because it would make the FBI liars.

As you probably know by now, the FBI has demanded that Apple break into the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. Apple has refused, insisting that doing so would set a terrible precedent. But both the FBI and Apple are currently waging a fierce PR battle over one of the possible ways that information from the phone could’ve been retrieved in the early stages of the investigation: Hacking Farook’s iCloud password and causing his phone to push information to the cloud remotely.

In a filing yesterday the FBI claimed that the owner of the phone, San Bernardino County, had been the one who bungled the auto-backup of the phone to iCloud. San Bernardino County was Farook’s employer because he worked for the local Department of Health.

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http://gizmodo.com/san-bernardino-county-calls-the-fbi-liars-over-terroris-1760317923


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