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Will Unlocking Apple's iPhone Unlock a Pandora's Box?
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Digital rights group Fight for the Future is hoping to give voice to ordinary people concerned with the FBI’s attempt to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone used by a mass shooter.
Fight for the Future’s new Save Security campaign, launched Wednesday, will collect comments from people worried about the Internet security implications of the FBI’s court request. Organizers will display the comments and read them aloud outside a California courthouse before a hearing in the case next Tuesday.
“We’re actually trying to give a voice to people all over the world who are extremely concerned about this,” said Evan Greer, campaign director for the group. Fight for the Future is trying to “bring those voices into the conversation so that it’s not just a fight between a giant company and the government,” Greer added.
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A New York judge ruled earlier this week that the government can not force Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking an encrypted iPhone.
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It seems there can be further indignity foisted onto people who’ve had their iPad or iPhone stolen.
Symantec has discovered a campaign that aims to unlock Apple devices after they’ve been lost, which requires either the device’s passcode or the credentials for a person’s iCloud account.
To get in contact with victims, the criminals appear to be relying on information displayed on the lost device, wrote Joji Hamada of Symantec in a blog post.
Apple’s Find My iPhone feature has a “Lost Mode” that allows users to display a message on the screen of their lost device, such as a phone number, he wrote.
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