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"A laundry list of past and present iPhone experts and cryptography experts today filed an amicus brief asking the courts to vacate their order mandating Apple assist the FBI in unlocking a phone belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. Read more about Apple Hackers, Crypto Experts Ask Courts to Vacate Order
"Security experts are not happy about the FBI's proposal to break security on an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attack. Today, seven of those experts submitted their arguments in an amicus brief to the court considering the order, arguing the proposed software would weaken lockscreen protections for iPhone users around the world, with potentially dire consequences. Read more about Security experts say Apple order 'endangers public safety'
""For practical reasons, the security bypass this court would order Apple to create almost certainly will be used on other iPhones in the future," computer security experts say in a brief compiled by Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
"This spread increases the risk that the forensic software will escape Apple's control either through theft, embezzlement, or order of another court, including a foreign government."" Read more about Tech vs. the Feds: Apple Allies Rally in Flurry of New Court Filings
""This is a very important decision," Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor, said of the Brooklyn ruling. "Other courts, even in jurisdictions where it isn't binding, will look to this order and read the judge's reasoning and, though the exact context will be different, the principle that there are limits to what the All Writs Act can compel will be interesting to all cases involving this act."" Read more about Apple doesn’t have to unlock drug dealer’s iPhone, judge says
"Al Gidari, a former partner at Perkins Coie who still speaks with tech executives, said there may have been initial discomfort about the case, given that it involved a terrorist attack and a “general sense” that the government’s request was not overly burdensome.
But Apple’s brief, in which it explained the burden and the harm, particularly in regard to the compelled signing of the software update, “has galvanized industry support,” said Gidari, who is now with Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society." Read more about Relatives of San Bernardino victims and tech giants lend voices to Apple-FBI fight over locked iPhone
"On Thursday, a group of those iPhone hackers and other security researchers filed an amicus brief siding with Apple in its intensifying legal battle over the FBI’s court order to assist in cracking an encrypted iPhone that belonged to San Bernadino killer Syed Rizwan Farook. Read more about Top iPhone Hackers Ask Court to Protect Apple From the FBI
"At the same time, “CALEA did not prohibit a carrier from deploying an encryption service for which it did not retain the ability to decrypt communications for law enforcement access, period,” wrote Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, in an analysis of the case. Read more about The FBI Is at War With Apple Because It Couldn’t Change Wiretap Law
"Because of the nature of the request, the outcome of the California case is more significant than the Brooklyn case, analysts say. “It has the potential to alter the landscape permanently,” said Al Gidari, a former partner at Perkins Coie who represented tech firms and is now at Stanford University." Read more about Judge rules in favor of Apple in key case involving a locked iPhone
"The ruling should help in the California case because Orenstein fully supported Apple’s arguments, a company executive said on a call with reporters. The Justice Department said it will appeal his decision.
Orenstein’s decision “lays out in excruciating detail for the government all the reasons why they’ve overreached here,” according to Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School." Read more about Apple Goes to Washington Fresh From Big Boost in iPhone Fight
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo called the New York ruling "the first shoe to drop" among many to come. "Depending on how they drop, it could dictate that this case goes all the way to the Supreme Court, as Tim Cook has alluded."" Read more about First Take: Apple-FBI fight may be custom made for Supreme Court
