Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    3 年前

    This isn’t quite right…

    Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

    But asking a company for the unencrypted data, and forcing a company to produce a new application, are completely different things.

    • False@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

      Happen to have a source for that? That’s nigh impossible for most encryption