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
    4·
    1 year ago

    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·
      1 year ago

      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