Hovertext: I'm surprised nobody's quantified exactly how over-represented turtlenecks are in SMBC.
The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI's request.
— CountyWire (@CountyWire) February 20, 2016
The Apple executive told reporters that the company’s engineers had first suggested to the government that it take the phone to the suspect’s apartment to connect it to the Wi-Fi there. But since reporters and members of the public had swarmed that crime scene shortly after the shootings occurred, it was likely that any Wi-Fi there had been disconnected. So Apple suggested the government take the phone to Farook’s former workplace and connect the phone to a Wi-Fi network there.Two interesting points in there: first, do you remember how there was all this discussion about the insane media scrum that ransacked Farook's house? And lots of people pointed out that useful evidence may have been harmed by it. At the time, the FBI insisted they were all done with the house, but it appears that may have been part of the reason why they couldn't get the backup.
The executive said that Apple walked the government through the entire process to accomplish this, but the government came back about two weeks later and told Apple that it hadn’t worked.
Apple didn’t understand why it had not worked—until the company learned that sometime after the phone had been taken into the custody of law enforcement, someone had gone online and changed the Apple ID that the phone uses to conduct backups.
Although “the legislative environment is very hostile today,” the intelligence community’s top lawyer, Robert S. Litt, said to colleagues in an August e-mail, which was obtained by The Post, “it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement.”Two months later, you get a "terrorist attack" (or a workplace dispute that can be painted as a terrorist attack) and a sorta, kinda encrypted phone, and voila. Just what the intel community asked for. It would be crazy to suggest that any of this was done on purpose -- it's almost certainly a bit of convenience for the intel and law enforcement communities. But the fact that the FBI directed the Health Department to change the password, and that's part of the reason they're now locked out,
There is value, he said, in “keeping our options open for such a situation.”
You’ll never convince us there’s a better racing game out there than Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo. Hours and hours of our childhoods were spent racing those pixelated courses in our parents’ basements, but with the SNES only supporting four players, our races were never as intense as this epic 101-player battle royale. How did those Pokemon get in there?
.@EFF pic.twitter.com/pv6V4oOJwS
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) January 7, 2016
Part B of my answer is: Who the fuck are you anyway EFF? Why are you stirring up so much trouble and who pays you?This has immediately resulted in widespread mocking across Twitter, with many people tweeting to Legere that they fund EFF and they care a lot more about EFF than T-Mobile:
@JohnLegere /I/ pay @EFF. And I pay T-Mobile. Take care: /one/ of those two things could change really quickly, and it isn't the EFF one.
— H. Poteat (@NSQE) January 7, 2016
.@johnlegere I (along with many other members) pay @eff.
— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) January 7, 2016
Since @JohnLegere asked, #IPayTheEFF. @EFF
— matt blaze (@mattblaze) January 7, 2016
I may have to drop my T-Mobile service after this brash response to @eff by @johnlegere pic.twitter.com/z7nBuh7sMU
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 7, 2016
.@JohnLegere Who pays for @EFF to keep watch on shady anti-net neutrality moves like this? People who know the net. pic.twitter.com/525NKCkRuO
— Kris Slevens (@cpqNetworks) January 7, 2016
@JohnLegere I'm a T-Mobile customer. I pay for @EFF #WeAreEFF
— Benjamin Eckel (@bhelx) January 7, 2016
.@JohnLegere @EFF I pay them. I also pay T-Mobile. If I have to choose between the two, I'll keep paying the EFF and switch from T-Mobile.
— Curious Gene XIII (@curiousgene) January 7, 2016