Feds move to cancel iPhone hearing | Hacker News Reader

Feds move to cancel iPhone hearing

politico.com

52 pointssethbannon14 comments

The article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332965 seems a bit more substantive and that thread is far more active, so I guess we'll treat this one as the duplicate despite its having been posted earlier.

Correction: feds realise they have no chance of winning and back out to prevent a precedent that would hurt them in the future.

Completely agree. Just posted the exact same thing on a similar thread!

If the FBI is playing games with the court system, could Apple call them out on it and convince the court to rule on issues anyway?

Not really, plus the first rule of law is to never ask a question you do not know the answer too.

Only a suicidal lawyer would even agree to do it, they "won" why poke the bear?

No, no, no.

This NEEDS to go forward. It needs to be decided, once and for all.

It needs to be decided, once and for all.

That's exactly why they are delaying. They don't want the decision to go against them.

The FBI is clearly abusing the All Writs Act. The decision in Apple's favor in Brooklyn spelled this out. It's very compelling reading, and I'm sure it would have influenced the California court. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11199169

To look on the bright side, this obviously-bullshit maneuver still weakens FBI's position for the next round.

I don't believe that is true unless it goes through the courts all the way.

This will be forgotten without a ruling.

The headline now reads "Feds move to postpone iPhone hearing" instead of "cancel".

I'd read it as they really want to cancel but it looks better to judge to postpone now and they say later we hacked the phone ourselves or we broke the phone and now don't need Apple anymore.

It's probably the hardware bruteforce unlock that's been floating around for about a year:

Example: http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock....

Nope, that's not working anymore since iOS 8.2

The article mentions the device might be exploiting CVE-2014-4451, which was fixed in iOS 8.1.1.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com