Father begs Apple CEO to help unlock his dead 13-year-old son’s iPhone

"I think Apple should offer solutions for exceptional cases like mine."

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[lewax00]

Although I share your philosophy in general, I think Apple should offer solutions for exceptional cases like mine.

A backdoor for one "exceptional case" is a backdoor in general. You can't have it both ways.

 

[lewax00]

Another case with zero privacy or security implications. No good reason for Apple not to help, except simply that they don't want to.

How exactly do they break into this iPhone without creating a method to crack into any iPhone?

 

[lewax00]

Skullsnstuff[/url]":2n70bnwd]I know that in a time of family tragedy and illness, passwords are probably the last thing on a father's mind, but maybe his story will inspire others to give someone they trust a copy of their passwords for cases like this, or have it locked away with personal documents. It would also really help estate executors with settling legal affairs after an adult passes away.
But some pictures his son took and did not feel a need to share at the time are not worth having a company break the protection of all the rest of their customers' data.

Honestly that is what frustrates me about my wife. I try to tell her my pins, passwords, etc., but she frankly doesn't care and/or forgets them.

I think at this point after nearly 10 years of marriage and 11 years of being together, I think she FINALLY has my "standard" PIN memorized that I use for banking and a couple of other important things. She does have my basic "non-secure" account password memorized.

But she still asks me at least once a month what the Amazon account password is, or eBay password or [insert account name] password. Heck she often can't remember her own passwords.

The online banking password or credit card password? Yeah, I don't think she has a clue even though I've told her dozens of times over the years. That is "my thing" that I take care of, she doesn't need to remember it.

Sigh

So write it down and put it somewhere secure, e.g. a safe deposit box, to be passed on when you die. Then she doesn't have to remember anything.

 

[lewax00]

DrPizza[/url]":18bw94hg]

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DrPizza[/url]":18bw94hg]Another case with zero privacy or security implications. No good reason for Apple not to help, except simply that they don't want to.

well except that they engineered the phone so they cant.

either they can and the FBI should have been able to get them to do it. or they cant.


EDIT: guess we will find out if a staff members post will be hidden.

Except their engineering does not in fact prevent this. Flash new (signed) secure element firmware, remove the lockout, done.

Did someone hack Peter Bright's account??

No, this is pretty normal actually.

 

[lewax00]

lewax00[/url]":bzk5e2nl]

Skullsnstuff[/url]":bzk5e2nl]I know that in a time of family tragedy and illness, passwords are probably the last thing on a father's mind, but maybe his story will inspire others to give someone they trust a copy of their passwords for cases like this, or have it locked away with personal documents. It would also really help estate executors with settling legal affairs after an adult passes away.
But some pictures his son took and did not feel a need to share at the time are not worth having a company break the protection of all the rest of their customers' data.

Honestly that is what frustrates me about my wife. I try to tell her my pins, passwords, etc., but she frankly doesn't care and/or forgets them.

I think at this point after nearly 10 years of marriage and 11 years of being together, I think she FINALLY has my "standard" PIN memorized that I use for banking and a couple of other important things. She does have my basic "non-secure" account password memorized.

But she still asks me at least once a month what the Amazon account password is, or eBay password or [insert account name] password. Heck she often can't remember her own passwords.

The online banking password or credit card password? Yeah, I don't think she has a clue even though I've told her dozens of times over the years. That is "my thing" that I take care of, she doesn't need to remember it.

Sigh

So write it down and put it somewhere secure, e.g. a safe deposit box, to be passed on when you die. Then she doesn't have to remember anything.

Working on that. I don't want to just leave it sitting around and our safe deposit box is a good 40+ minutes on the other side of town and we basically haven't touched it in 7 years. Once we have moved it to the branch that opened up a few minutes away we will actually start using it again and it'll probably go in there (along with a rotated HDD with full data back-ups. Right now I don't have anything off sight, just my primary on my desktop, back-up on the server and cold back-up on an external HDD).

The only other secure place to really put it, is a rather obvious place (and not THAT difficult) to break in to.

I'd prefer it not to be a pad of paper sitting in a desk drawer.

Could get a fire safe at home. I'd generally think that's secure enough, it's not like most people going after your online accounts are going to break into your home, and people actually breaking into your home are probably more interested in things they can easily sell.

 

[lewax00]

Quixote2961[/url]":1wory8r8]Give it up, Peter. You'll just have to agree to disagree with most of these posters.

If you live in a country you need to abide by its laws. If the country is a democracy you get those laws changed by voting in people who will change those laws. If you don't want to abide by the laws passed by the democratically-elected people who run your government then - guess what - you are free to seek citizenship in another country.

I agree, I think Apple should abide by the law, and unlock the phone.

It's not the law until all appeals are settled. So they are abiding by the law.