[LINK] Schneier's explanation of Apple v. FBI

[Scott Howard]

Except, he's wrong.

He states "*But the hacked software the court and the FBI wants Apple to
provide would be general. It would work on any phone of the same model. It
has to.*"

However from the start, the "request" included that the custom firmware
could be restricted to a single phone, which from all accounts is possible
to do.  As the firmware needs to be signed by Apple, there is no way that
the firmware could be use on another device - Apple has complete control
over that level, and the FBI request and the court order both allow them to
keep that control.

  Scott



On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
wrote:

> Schneier's explanation of Apple v. FBI:
> https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2016/0315.html#2
>
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