Data Privacy
Feb. 24, 2016
Is encryption safe?
Beyond the current Apple/FBI controversy, there also is another way that the government could threaten encryption in many cases. By Bruce J. Heiman
The latest salvo in the current Crypto Wars is a federal judge's order last week that Apple provide the FBI with a way to disable the feature on an iPhone that erases the memory after 10 unsuccessful attempts to input a password. The FBI argues this is necessary in order for it to be able to "brute force" attack the iPhone's encrypted information (i.e., by randomly trying decryption codes until it finds the right one).
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