I'd like to hear what the defense has to say. I think it's really fishy for a journalist to write an article that basically parrots the prosecution. Maybe the defense couldn't be reached for comment...well then say that if it's the case.
>A handgun was later recovered in the home.
Also: "Jace's attorney and the prosecutor assigned to his case could not be reached for comment."
That's unfortunate. The system is suppose to prove his guilt, and assume innocence by default.
If it even comes to a trial.
I think a huge part of it is trying to stay ahead of this security curve.
Exploits are going to continue to be found in older versions of iOS (and every other piece of software, for that matter). It's kind of disheartening to think that if the authorities just hold your phone long enough, they'll eventually have an exploit to unlock it with.
I don't think Apple gains anything substantial from pushing security fixes, however eroding user control could be in their interest.
That Windows loves to do it with no warning _while you are actively using the computer_ is what makes it annoying.
Notably, there is no real notion of long running process in iOS.
would Apple be able to resist it? how would it become known they tried?
"[I]n 2015, an Apple technician was ordered by an L.A. judge to help police extract data from the phone's hard drive, according to the search warrant."
So, did Apply comply? If they did, or if they didn't, I don't think this has been reported anywhere.
Perhaps Apple complied and imaged the disk, and afterwards, LA needed a consultant to actually make something of it.
That said, they sometimes go out of their way to make it inconvenient - if you want data provided on physical media, you have to supply a firewire disk
Has there been a divorce in California in the last several decades in which child custody was an issue, which has not included such allegations? Are reporters really that ignorant, or do they just assume their readers are?
Using the number "Domestic Violence-Related Calls for Assistance" as reference on how to scale from Kentucky to California, ~60 % of divorce cases will have no mention of violence.
(In 2004 Kentucky had 800 calls per 100 000 inhabitants and California had 500; the assumption is that number of allegations in hearings scale with the calls of assistance).
https://aifs.gov.au/publications/allegations-family-violence...
https://oag.ca.gov/crime/cjsc/stats/domestic-violence
http://www.ncdsv.org/fortcampbell/I-12_Kentucky%20DV%20Facts...
http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2004/tables/N...
Went too far down the rabbit hole there.
Secondly, the calls for assistance is basically reports to the police, and they (8 per 1000 in Kentucky and 5 per 1000 in California [ACS 2008 estimate]) are close to the divorce rate in the respective states (13 per 1000 in Kentucky and 8 per 1000 in California). Overestimating by saying that all divorces are settled in court (some numbers say that ~ 4 % are), the 60% of cases involving domestic violence means that there would be 7.8 per 1000 domestic violence divorce cases. As this is the same amount as the number of calls for police assistance (8 per 1000), your claim that the rate of domestic violence reported is orders of magnitude greater in court is pure falsehood. The case in California is even worse, with estimated 3.2 per 1000 domestic violence cases versus 5 per 1000 calls about domestic violence.
https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/marriage/data/acs/Evalua...
1. "Here's how to break the phone's encryption using available tools today", and;
2. "Here's a less-secure version of the OS, we'll use our digital signature to convince the phone to accept it."
If they ever do the latter, they can be sure it won't be long before they start getting warrants to push insecure OS updates to everyone named as a "person of interest," which seems to be everyone these days.
And the next time a Snowden leaks that Apple is sending insecure OS updates to more-or-less all iPhones, they have lost an enormous amount of goodwill and brand recognition.
A lot of people believe (rightly or wrongly) that run-of-the-mill Android phones are insecure because the carriers won't push updates, but that you can trust top-tier manufacturers like Apple to keep your phone secure.
The last thing they need is for people to say "Cheap Android, Expensive iPhone, there's no difference."
Thankfully browsers and editors now save and restore their last state, so an automatic reboot doesn't enrage me like it did in the WinXP days.