Comment Announced Wednesday? (Score 1) 242
The linked legislation was initially introduced AND referred to Judiciary Committee in 2013 (18-Nov-2013). What am I missing?
Comment Re:Update to Godwin's law? (Score 1) 575
Even so, a backdoor on full disk encryption, though I suppose requiring physical access, is a security hole.
Not positive, but pretty sure that any machine the iPhone has synced with has a copy of its key tho... so it's not really un-decryptable... It just puts more of the private citizen's property in-play for warrants and such. ("Your honor, we can't read the defendant's phone without his macbook") I can't think of any way it would be able to sync with the device without being able to read the "disk." **disclaimer: Not an iPhone hacker**
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It isn't easy being the parent of a six-year-old. However, it's a pretty small price to pay for having somebody around the house who understands computers.
