Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is “Bullshit”

[Judi Lynn]

Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is “Bullshit”
Jenna McLaughlin
Mar. 8 2016, 4:00 p.m.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the FBI’s ostensibly last-ditch attempt to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone is a sham.

The FBI last month persuaded a federal judge that the only way to get into the phone was to make Apple write code to undermine its own security protocols. Apple is refusing to comply

“The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’” to unlock the phone, Snowden said during an discussion at Common Cause’s “Blueprint for Democracy” conference.

“Respectfully, that’s bullshit,” he said, over a video link from Moscow.

Here’s the discussion, which also included Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, and Dan Froomkin, Washington editor of The Intercept. The comments in question come at about the 30-minute mark.

More:
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/snowden-fbi-claim-that-only-apple-can-unlock-phone-is-bullshit/

[Baobab]

1. They say that because of trade deals equal rights provisions.

If they admitted they had back doors all the other countries would have to get a right to them and since they are completely amoral/right and wrong agnostic by design, there is no way they could prevent even the most repressive country from demanding and receiving that equal back door that is their right.