Messages from The San Bernardino Shooters

The FBI has now announced, and announced, and announced they may have a way to access the encrypted iPhone messages of the San Bernardino shooters, without the help of Apple. Who cares?

Mostly Apple customers. Apple has a totally vested interest in maintaining security for their would-be customers. Help the FBI, and you help yourself out of business. But then come some cryptic announcement from Johns Hopkins that they can penetrate encrypted graphics. According to the Washington Post, a team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins University computer scientist Matthew Green has poked a hole in Apple's iMessage encryption software. The FBI now claims it may no longer needs the help of Apple.

Fantastic. Decrypting images is somewhat different, but entirely similar, to decrypting messages, but the cat is out of the bag. This tacitly makes it OK to for Apple to help the government. And maybe they have done just that with a clever cover provided by an external agent.

What a wonderful world! The one (Apple) stands the high moral ground against the evil interloper (FBI). The third party (WHOMEVER) arrives in the nick of time to say we can do it. The first is off the hook, the evil interloper gets the info, and morality, business, and justice are preserved.

What do you believe?

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