Tuesday 29 March 2016

FBI to Apple: We Would Probably Disclose the iPhone Flaw if We Knew What It Was (Robert Knake, CFR)

With yesterday’s announcement that the FBI had gained access to the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, the San Bernardino gunman, the tech community is clamoring to find out how they did it. Many commenters believe that any vulnerability used to access the data must be subject to the Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP), the process by which the U.S. government decides whether to disclose a computer vulnerability (partially declassified here).

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/03/29/fbi-to-apple-we-would-probably-disclose-the-iphone-flaw-if-we-knew-what-it-was/

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