New FBI Director James Comey, U.S. President
Barack Obama and former FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller. Comey was recently slammed
in the legislature partly due to the fact "Congress is
disturbed by his lack of tech knowledge"
Richard Clarke, a former senior counter-terrorism official who served under George W. Bush,
is siding with Apple against the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation (FBI), who have dragged the
trillion dollar company into court for dubious, dishonest
reasons. The FBI is seeking a court ruling to force Apple to
unlock the iPhone of the main terrorist behind the San
Bernardino attacks that occurred in December 2015.
Apple has
resisted, as it would set a legal precedent allowing the FBI
constant access to their computer systems, software and
future innovations, for surreptitious spying purposes. This would greatly damage Apple, as the
public would associate it with the FBI, an agency Americans
historically hate and are rightfully suspicious of in many
ways. Many articles and online comments reveal
Americans hate the FBI. From the injustices of the civil
rights era to the present, public contempt for the FBI has
only grown.
On March 14, 2016 counterterrorism official
Clarke and others stated the same thing the Judiciary Report
previously wrote days prior on March 11, 2016 in the "FBI Using San Bernardino Terrorist Attack As A Power Grab At
Apple" article,
revealing that the FBI does not need Apple to crack the
iPhone of the terrorist. The reason I knew the FBI is lying about
this matter regarding Apple is there is a mobile phone/internet shop in
London I have used since 2012 to quickly access the internet
while on the road and for 15 British pounds sterling, they
unlock mobile phones in a few minutes to a half an hour.
I've seen them do it. They ask a series of questions to
ascertain ownership, then unlock the phone for the fee.
It is not some clandestine shop. It is a licensed company
providing many legal phone and internet services.
There are
other companies like it. There are similar companies in
America as well. So, in short, the FBI is lying about being unable
to unlock the mobile phone of the San Bernardino terrorist
ringleader. There are companies who do these things. Not
that many, but they exist and are not hard to find.
The FBI just wants an illegal foothold at
Apple to violate the privacy of American and global
citizens, ranging from everyday folks to billionaires to
influential domestic and international politicians all over
the world, who have Apple products such as iPhones. The FBI
would then share this illegal stranglehold and spying foothold
with the NSA and CIA (among others). Essentially, it would
damage Apple beyond repair, harming a viable U.S. business
that employs many people and accounts for a significant
amount of revenue in America.
The irony of it all is the arrogant
psychopaths running the FBI and CIA are envious, ill willed,
paranoid people resentful of those with valuable assets. The
FBI and CIA can't replace the value of Apple once they
damage and potentially destroy it with this madness. The FBI did not create Apple.
The FBI are not intelligent enough to have done so, yet
arrogantly think they should be in control of this company
above their intelligence level and paid grade.
Exactly who do they think they are to be meddling in such an innovative,
valuable company they
do not even understand the inner workings of in any manner. Does
the FBI realize how dumb they look to the public when
they do such things. It's like watching a hyperactive,
restless monkey take a paintbrush to a Picasso. You just
know the painting is going to be irretrievably ruined and
devalued.
But that's just it with the FBI, they are
in their own strange world, detached from reality. Remember when the
FBI arrogantly
announced to the world they had come up with a new form of
science to explain the anthrax case they stitched up and
framed innocent scientist Bruce Ivins for, who ended up
committing suicide due to severe FBI bullying, harassment
and crazy threats from them against him, his family and friends
(The FBI has been framing people for crimes:
New Evidence Reveals The FBI Sent Innocent People To Death
Row and
Man Wrongfully Imprisoned For 28-Years Due To FBI
and The FBI Still
Framing People For Crimes and
Wives Of
Men Framed By The FBI Speak).
When the
FBI tried to explain the insane garbage they came up with that
the agency branded a new type of science, every credible scientist in the
world worth their salt pronounced it nonsensical garbage and
idiocy. And it should alarm everyone that a crazy federal
agency went that far, spending tens of millions of dollars
of taxpayer money, to justify framing up an innocent man for
a crime he did not commit, to meet an arrest quota. But here
they go charging into Apple with their deranged behavior, "Like a bull in a China shop." And make no mistake, the
brainless bull is going to destroy some fine China.
The FBI at Apple is the equivalent of a "Bull In A China Shop"
In a similar case, the FBI insanely
destroyed a man's multi-million dollar internet company,
Lavabit, when he had done nothing wrong, all in a crazy
attempt at getting at NSA whistle blower, Edward Snowden.
The FBI is constantly engaging in crazy, damaging behavior
that is stripping a fortune in value from companies it
meddles in. It is one of the stupidest things I have ever
witnessed and Congress is negligent to let their
Frankenstein agencies such as the FBI and CIA run loose with
such terrible behavior destroying innocent people's valuable
businesses. It certainly isn't in the name of national
security, as all this invasive spying the FBI, CIA and NSA
has been doing has not prevented a single act of terrorism.
The federal government had to admit this in Congress.
They are destroying America with this
madness. What kind of federal idiots do such a thing. It is an arrogant fool who thinks he or she
is to play games with other people's valuable companies, property and
assets they were not smart enough to
build and earn themselves. There ought to be a law that if a
government employee, including the head of state, engages in
conduct that financially damages or destroys a valuable
company, he or she should be promptly prosecuted, slapped
with staggering fines equaling the financial loss/damage
created by their arrogant conduct and sent to prison.
STORY SOURCE
Congress is disturbed by the FBI director’s lack of tech knowledge
Congress is disturbed by the FBI director’s lack of tech knowledge
Mar 14, 2016 at 7:45 PM - A couple of weeks
ago, the FBI and Apple faced off in a Congressional hearing
and answered various questions fielded by members of the
House Judiciary Committee. Now it appears that members of
the committee, from both sides of the aisle, aren’t happy
with FBI Director James Comey’ grasp of technology.
According to Fast Company’s sources, members
of the committee were unpleasantly surprised by Comey’s
apparent unpreparedness to answer some of the more technical
questions. On one hand, it’s great to see the chief of one
of the most relevant law enforcement agencies in the world
admit he’s not fully aware of all the technical aspects of
encryption. On the other hand, Comey could have brought in
aides to help him out with these questions, but he decided
not to do it.
Comey declined to answer several questions,
explaining he lacked the technical understanding to do it.
But he also proved he knows less than some of the members of
the committee. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has
a security background, asked Comey about the FBI’s attempts
to crack the iPhone 5c that belongs to Syed Farook. Issa
knew there are two ways to do it, one involving Apple’s help
(disabling the security features of iOS), and one that can
be done by removing the flash memory chip from the phone and
mirroring its contents.
Issa wanted to find out if Comey knew for
certain the FBI can’t break into the iPhone by itself, and
Comey’s answers were not satisfactory. “We have engaged all
parts of government to see if anybody has a way of doing
this on an iPhone 5c running iOS 9, and we don’t,” Comey
said. When asked about the mirroring technique, Comey seemed
not to understand the question.
“If you haven’t asked that question, how can
you come before this committee and before a federal judge
and demand that somebody else invent something if you can’t
answer the questions that your people have tried this?” he
asked Comey. “First, I’m the director of the FBI. If I
could answer that question there’d be something
dysfunctional with my leadership,” Comey said.
“I only asked you if your people have tried
that, not whether or not it would work,” Issa continued.
“Who did you go to to find out if you could do it yourself?”
“I did not ask the questions you’re asking here today, and
I’m not sure I even understand the questions,” Comey
replied. “I have reasonable confidence, in fact, I have high
confidence, that the federal government has reviewed all the
options.”
“I’ve heard about mirroring, maybe that’s
what you’re talking about. Hopefully, my folks are watching
this, and if they hear any good ideas in what you’re talking
about, we’ll let you know.” Democratic Congresswoman Zoe
Lofgren admitted that Comey’s lack of knowledge is
problematic for the entire debate.
“It’s clear he’s not up to speed on some of
the technical issues, which he conceded during the hearing,”
Lofgren told Fast Company. “And that might be part of the
problem as to why they are pursuing the course of action
they are pursuing.” “The director can’t be expected to be an
expert on every subject but I didn’t see him [bring any help
into the meeting], which I thought was interesting,” she
said.
Other committee members did not comment on
the matter. But committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
told the site that “the House Judiciary Committee will soon
announce its next steps on the encryption debate.” “As we
move forward, the goal is to find a solution that allows law
enforcement to effectively enforce the law without harming
the competitiveness of U.S. encryption providers or the
privacy and security protections of U.S. citizens,”
Goodlatte added.
Counterterrorism expert says FBI isn’t being honest about iPhone hacking
By Buster Hein • 12:11 pm, March 14, 2016 -
The guy that warned George Bush about an imminent al-Qaida
attack before 9/11 is taking Apple’s side in the company’s
fight against the FBI over whether it can be compelled to
break into the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone.
Richard Clarke, who served as the senior
counterterrorism official in the US for nine years, sat down
for an interview this morning regarding encryption and the
FBI’s efforts to hack the iPhone. Despite FBI Director James
Comey’s insistence that the FBI has tried everything, Clarke
says all it would take to hack the device is a call to Fort
Meade.
“If I were in the job now, I would have
simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of
the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this
problem for him,” Clarke told NPR’s David Green on Morning
Edition Monday. “They’re not as interested in solving this
problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.”
This is not the first time Director Comey
has been accused of trying to set a legal precedent for
forcing Apple to weaken security on iOS. Apple’s top lawyer
Bruce Sewell argued the same thing before the House
Judiciary committee earlier this year, while CEO Tim Cook
has made numerous public statement on why the FBI’s demands
put all citizens at risk.
The FBI has insisted that it has no means to
hack the iPhone 5c in question and that is only requesting
help for one device. Apple has been asked to create a new
version of iOS that would make it easier for the FBI to
guess the terrorist’s passcode without the device
auto-deleting its memory after too many failed attempts.
Congress grilled Comey during his committee appearance about
whether the agency has exhausted all its resources first.
Clarke claims they’re not even trying to unlock it.
“You really have to understand that the FBI
director is exaggerating the need for this and is trying to
build it up as an emotional case, organizing the families of
the victims and all of that,” Clarke said. “It’s Jim Comey,
and the attorney general is letting him get away with it.
Every expert I know believes that NSA could crack this
phone. They want the precedent that the government can
compel a computer device manufacturer to allow the
government in.” ...
A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target
in the Lavabit Case
Date of Publication: 03.17.16. - Time of
Publication: 5:30 pm. - It’s been one of the worst-kept
secrets for years: the identity of the person the government
was investigating in 2013 when it served the secure email
firm Lavabit with a court order demanding help spying on a
particular customer. Ladar Levison, owner of the now defunct
email service, has been forbidden since then, under threat
of contempt and possibly jail time, from identifying who the
government was investigating. In court documents from the
case unsealed in late 2013, all information that could
identify the customer was redacted.
But federal authorities recently screwed up
and revealed the secret themselves when they published a
cache of case documents but failed to redact one identifying
piece of information about the target: his email address,
Ed_Snowden@lavabit.com. With that, the very authorities
holding the threat of jail time over Levison’s head if he
said anything have confirmed what everyone had long ago
presumed: that the target account was Snowden’s.
The documents were posted on March 4 to the
federal court system known as Pacer as part of Levison’s
long battle for transparency in the case that ruined his
business. They were spotted this week by the transparency
site Cryptome and published online. Here’s a quick
recap of that case: On June 28, 2013, shortly after
newspapers published the first NSA leaks from Snowden, FBI
agents showed up at Levison’s door in Texas and served him
with a pen register order requiring him to give the
government metadata for the email activity of one customer’s
account.
The case was initially sealed and the public
didn’t learn about it and the fight over Levison’s customer
until after he had shuttered his email service in defiance
of the government. But even after he closed Lavabit and
there was no hope of the government obtaining information
about the account that it had been seeking, the target was
never identified. When some of the documents in the case
were finally unsealed in redacted form in October 2013,
however, the unredacted parts left little doubt that the
Lavabit case was about Snowden, who was known to be using a
Lavabit account in the spring of 2013 when his first NSA
leaks were published and when he was hiding in a safe house
in Hong Kong. It was still an educated guess, however...
