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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For all we know, the shooter used the same pin on his bank account as on his phone. Why are we jumping to conclusions?

[–] cm0002 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's probably the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda back where he used to work, 1077

[–] CarbonAlpine 3 points 3 months ago

Pamela Anderson didn't even need to show up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

For all we know he uses his thumb to unlock it and all they had to do was walk down to the morgue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Reading the article there is software that exploits 0days that can unlock practically any phone in hours

[–] g1ya777 1 points 3 months ago

maybe its an iphone with the hardware backdoor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Just two days after the attempted assassination at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI announced it “gained access” to the shooter’s phone.

Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that law enforcement agencies have several tools at their disposal to extract data from phones.

The bureau famously butted heads with Apple in late 2015 after the company refused to help law enforcement get around the encryption on the San Bernardino, California shooter’s iPhone.

Early in the following year, Apple refused a federal court order to help the FBI access the shooter’s phone, which the company said would effectively require it to build a backdoor for the iPhone’s encryption software.

“The FBI may use different words to describe this tool, but make no mistake: Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor,” Cook wrote.

Riana Pfefferkorn, a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, said the Pensacola shooting was one of the last times federal law enforcement agencies loudly denounced encryption.


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