{"id":230427,"date":"2016-03-09T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fbi-lies-about-needing-apples-help-to-break-into-iphone-snowden\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T21:31:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:31:48","slug":"fbi-lies-about-needing-apples-help-to-break-into-iphone-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fbi-lies-about-needing-apples-help-to-break-into-iphone-snowden\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI lies about needing Apple\u2019s help to break into iPhone: Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"77.960917144346\">\n<p><strong>US whistleblower Edward Snowden says the FBI\u2019s claim to need Apple to break into a terrorist\u2019s iPhone is a sham.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former contractor with the US National Security Agency was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cJ6PpX6xg-E&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=30m9s\">speaking<\/a> from Moscow to a conference on the threat Big Data and mass surveillance poses to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and American tech giant Apple have been engaged in a row over FBI\u2019s claims that it cannot break into an \u00a0iPhone 5c belonging to one of the terrorists in a deadly attack in San Bernardino, California last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI says Apple has the \u2018exclusive technical means\u2019 to unlock the phone. Respectfully, that\u2019s horse sh*t,\u201d Snowden said.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant has argued that the FBI\u2019s demand to roll back data protections to iOS 7 in the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook would give authorities the chance to access other iPhones as well.<\/p>\n<p>Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, raided a Department of Public Health training event and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/09\/454831\/us-snowden-apple-fbi-san-bernardino\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US whistleblower Edward Snowden says the FBI\u2019s claim to need Apple to break into a terrorist\u2019s iPhone is a sham. The former contractor with the US National Security Agency was speaking from Moscow to a conference on the threat Big Data and mass surveillance poses to democracy. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}