{"id":4092,"date":"2016-02-25T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-25T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:50:14","slug":"the_fbi_apple_battle_is_about_much_more_than_one_phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/25\/the_fbi_apple_battle_is_about_much_more_than_one_phone\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI-Apple Battle Is About Much More Than One Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ve been listening to a number of people talk about the debate, this whole FBI versus Apple and iPhone thing, and Tim Cook granted a very lengthy interview with ABC\u2019s David Muir, and World News Tonight about this, trying to explain his position and the FBI is explaining theirs. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s… Look, it\u2019s no different in this than any other thing that would come up, but it\u2019s fascinating, really, when in my case I am an expert on much of this. And to listen to people who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about talk about it with passion, it\u2019s fascinating. It\u2019s an interesting, it\u2019s an educational, informative thing to watch people who don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re talking about. I mean, it\u2019s not that they\u2019re purposely getting things wrong. It\u2019s that they think they have it under control, a total understanding.<\/p>\n

And when you listen to \u2019em, they don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen this on TV from show to show, not just one particular show. But here\u2019s the bottom line to this — and it\u2019s tough, too, because James Comey, the FBI director, is a solid guy. He worked for John Ashcroft. I\u2019ve never met him, but a lot of people I know also know him and have great things to say about him. But what the government\u2019s saying they want here is simply not what they\u2019re actually angling for when they say it\u2019s just about access to this one phone. Mr. Comey himself said, “Look, it\u2019s not even a phone that\u2019s in wide use. It\u2019s an iPhone 5c.”<\/line><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter, this whole story, it doesn\u2019t matter what kind of phone it is. It doesn\u2019t matter the model. It doesn\u2019t matter any — doesn\u2019t matter the specifics of the phone. That\u2019s not what is at stake here. This is about much more than simply a software company manufacturing an apparatus for the government to be able to get into one — and only one — phone. That is by no means what this is about. And, furthermore, this would have been solved — this whole thing would have been over with by now and nobody would have even known about it — except the FBI took it public. <\/p>\n

The FBI went public with this. <\/p>\n

That put Apple on notice. <\/p>\n

It put them on the defensive because their marketing ends up being attacked here and a number of other things. The FBI going public with this has the resulted in them not getting what they want, for all intents and purposes. I mean, it\u2019s not guaranteed, but this episode might have already ended with nobody knowing anything about it. They were talking back channels, private. It wasn\u2019t public. The FBI took it public. The reason the FBI took it public is because they\u2019re converting this incident into a PR vehicle to get more than what they really are stating they want. <\/p>\n

<\/a>They want, ultimately, to force software writers and manufacturers to eliminate encryption. And if not that, to give them the keys to be able to decrypt the content on phones. And they\u2019re using the threat of terrorism as a means of emotionally involving everybody here. I mean, who can oppose finding out everything you can find out about terrorists? Who in the world would stand in the way of trying to find out what terrorism is lurking out there and who the terrorist might be? If all that information perhaps is on that one phone, who could possibly oppose that? <\/p>\n

So the FBI wants to make everybody think that\u2019s what this is about, when it isn\u2019t. Their desires go way beyond being able to find out what\u2019s on this one phone — way, way beyond it. And in the midst of this, do you know what Apple is doing? And I\u2019m here to tell you that this is going to be something that is going to end up irritating a lot of people down the road. Because of this — and I think even prior to this incident happening. You know, Apple, if you trust their marketing, if you trust what they say when they market and sell their products — primarily their devices, the iPhones and iPads and so forth.<\/p>\n

If you believe them, then you believe that they are really totally invested in your privacy and really totally invested in your security. And they don\u2019t want anybody to be able to hack into your phone, get in your phone, find out what\u2019s on your phone without your permission. So what Apple is doing — and it may show up on the next iPhone, the iPhone 7, which is due to hit in September. Apple is working on securing their system software even more. And what they\u2019re going to end up with, if they succeed in this — and there\u2019s nothing technologically to stop them. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s, again, a marketing decision to do this or not. They could end up having system software that not even Apple would be able to crack. It will be so secure that not even Apple will be able to crack it. Now, you might say, “Well, that\u2019s really great, man! I\u2019ll be for that.” Well, here\u2019s the problem with that: Most people forget passwords. Well, not most, but a lot of people forget passwords. You would be stunned at the number of customer service calls that Apple and other similar tech companies get every day from people who have forgotten their passwords to their devices and don\u2019t know what to do. <\/p>\n

They have no way to get in if they\u2019ve forgotten their password, and there are mechanisms in place that if you try a number of times and get it wrong, in the case of Apple, they will delay the next attempt and delay the next attempt. And then after 10 attempts, if you have it set the phone\u2019s data will be erased. It\u2019s the ultimate security: Just wipe it. After 10 attempts, the assumption is that somebody other than the owner is trying to get in there. The first four attempts, you can try them immediately right after. <\/p>\n

If you fail four times, for the fifth attempt you have to wait a minute. If that fails, you have to wait 10 minutes, on up to the tenth time, which is the last time. After failed attempt number nine, you have to wait an hour before trying the tenth time. And if it fails the tenth time, sayonara. Now, in that case, you can call Apple now. When you set up your device and when you establish your passcode, you were given questions to answer what your favorite course in school was — you know, questions only you could possibly know the answers to — in case you forget your password.<\/line><\/p>\n

When you want Apple to open the phone for you, reset your password so you can get into it, you have to be able to prove who you are, more than with your credit card, more than with conventional identification data, you have to answer certain questions that you choose to answer when you set it all up. Apple\u2019s preparing to eliminate all that. They\u2019re gonna take this, the complete end of the road. If you forget your password, you are screwed. There will not be a way into it.<\/p>\n

Apple is writing it so that not even they will be able to unlock anybody\u2019s phone, and they\u2019re doing this on the basis of promising ultimate, total security and privacy. Now, that\u2019s gonna end up making a lot of people really irritated because there are more people than you would understand — or maybe not understand, believe — who forget their passwords. Have you ever forgotten a password? I\u2019ve never forgotten my phone PIN or passcode. But if it\u2019s been years since I\u2019ve used, say, a website where I need one?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve forgotten some. It happens to everybody, is the point. It\u2019s getting to the point where, if they succeed in this, — they\u2019re calling it “improvement in security” — and you forget it, and if you did not set up ways for you to remind yourself what that password is, you\u2019re gonna be out of luck. And if they do this, it\u2019s gonna make these phones hack proof, but it\u2019s gonna irritate a lot of people who forget their passwords and did not set up mechanisms whereby they can be reminded what their password is. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a little bit more involved than this. I\u2019m just giving you the surface end result of this. One of the ways that you can beat the system now — and this is what the San Bernardino County people screwed up. There\u2019s a way you can get into every iPhone without a passcode, and it is to put it in recovery mode and restore software, restore the operating system to it. And you can do all of that with — and preserving the data on the phone. You can do all of that by installing a new system from recovery mode. <\/p>\n

Now, getting into recovery mode\u2019s not an easy thing to do. It takes a little practice to get in there, but you have to figure out how to put the phone into recovery mode. Connect it to iTunes (can\u2019t use iCloud for this), and then once you\u2019ve done that, you have a way of getting into the phone. This is what the San Bernardino people blew that opportunity by changing the Apple ID password. They were trying to get in and find a backup on iCloud of the data on the phone that they could get to, and because they changed…<\/line><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t know what they had. <\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t know what they were doing. <\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t know that they had total control over the device and everybody else<\/p>\n

that has a device that they gave. So it\u2019s not just about this one phone, and it\u2019s not just about whatever\u2019s on this phone stopping terrorism. They want ways into all kinds of devices. They want the devices to be less encrypted than they are now. But they\u2019re camouflaging those desires by focusing everybody\u2019s attention here. “It\u2019s just one phone! It\u2019s just a terrorist\u2019s phone. Who in the world could not want us to find out what was on that phone to stop terrorism?” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the position Apple finds themselves in, and is having to explain this. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tough sell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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