The Latest on the FBI and Apple
RUSH: Say, folks, there's another angle to this ongoing news story between Apple and the FBI over security, and that's something I, sadly, intended to get to today but didn't. But Apple won that yesterday, the hearing that they had, the congressional hearing with Bruce Sewell, who is their corporate counsel, the FBI. Apple won that on 7-5, 7-5 points wise, and they may have won the slam dunk portion of this. All involves the All Writs Act.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/technology/apple-and-fbi-face-off-before-house-judiciary-committee.html?_r=0
originalAnd I'll save it, give you details tomorrow, because what this is really about is the encryption on your phone. That's what they want. It's not about breaking this phone. This is just designed to get everybody thinking that we gotta do everything we can to get on the terrorist's phone, but what everybody wants, FBI wants, what the government wants, is to be able to decrypt the data on a phone.
The software that Apple wrote and installed in certain phones, sold in this case to the county of San Bernardino, includes state-of-the-art protocols that protect the content of the phone on much of the software like iMesssages, the texting program.
Encryption is the process where really smart computer programmers write software that protects the content that's in computer files so that you need the key, the combination of the lock to be able to decrypt and be able to read it.
RUSH: Say, folks, there's another angle to this ongoing news story between Apple and the FBI over security, and that's something I, sadly, intended to get to today but didn't. But Apple won that yesterday, the hearing that they had, the congressional hearing with Bruce Sewell, who is their corporate counsel, the FBI. Apple won that on 7-5, 7-5 points wise, and they may have won the slam dunk portion of this. All involves the All Writs Act.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/technology/apple-and-fbi-face-off-before-house-judiciary-committee.html?_r=0
originalAnd I'll save it, give you details tomorrow, because what this is really about is the encryption on your phone. That's what they want. It's not about breaking this phone. This is just designed to get everybody thinking that we gotta do everything we can to get on the terrorist's phone, but what everybody wants, FBI wants, what the government wants, is to be able to decrypt the data on a phone.
The software that Apple wrote and installed in certain phones, sold in this case to the county of San Bernardino, includes state-of-the-art protocols that protect the content of the phone on much of the software like iMesssages, the texting program.
Encryption is the process where really smart computer programmers write software that protects the content that's in computer files so that you need the key, the combination of the lock to be able to decrypt and be able to read it.