09.03.2016 13:56 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

Edward Snowden says FBI’s claims are “BS,” explains how they can bypass auto-erase [Video]

We said yesterday that the war of words on the Apple/FBI dispute were hotting up, and Edward Snowden has now taken things a step further, suggesting that the FBI’s claims that they need Apple to access the iPhone are … not true. His comments were reported by The Intercept, which posted video of the discussion at a civil liberties conference. “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’” to unlock the phone, Snowden said during a discussion at Common Cause’s Blueprint for Democracy conference. “Respectfully, that’s bullsh*t,” he said, over a video link from Moscow. Snowden had earlier described how the FBI could physically extract the passcode from the iPhone chip, and has now linked to an explanation of how the agency could bypass the auto-erase feature … more…Filed under: AAPL Company, iOS Devices Tagged: American Civil Liberties Union, Apple Inc, edward snowden, Encryption, FBI, Federal Bureau

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