In a recent Tweet, Edward Snowden says that there are some crucial details in the FBI vs Apple case being obscured by the officials. Below you can find a list with Snowden’s conclusions:

1. The FBI already has all of the suspect’s communications records — who they talked to and how — as these are stored by service providers, not on the phone itself.

2. The FBI has received comprehensive backups of all the suspect’s data until just 6 weeks before the crime.

3. Copies of the suspect’s contacts with co-workers — the FBI’s claimed interest — are available in duplicate from these co-workers’ phones.

4. The phone in controversy is a government-issued work phone, subjected to consent-to-monitoring, not a secret terrorist communications device. The “operational” phones believed to be hiding incriminating information, recovered by the FBI during a search, were physically destroyed, not “shielded by Apple”.

5. Alternative means for gaining access to this device — and others — exist that do not require the manufacturer’s assistance.

Snowden’s conclusions were discussed on it’s Twitter account and some peoples concluded also that:

FBI to APPLE

According to Techcrunch, FBI requested Apple to:

1. Disable or bypass the auto-erase function on iOS that erases phones if too many wrong passwords were enetered.

2. Remove the delay on password inputs so that the FBI ( Federal Bureau of Investigation) can “guess” the iPhone’s passcode without it locking them out for minutes or hours

3. Create a new version of iOS that allows the submission of passcodes via wireless protocol like Bluetooth or Wifi or the physical port on the device.

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