Maybe the FBI should be alerted to this attempt to gain access to a wireless device via hacks and bits of malicious code. According to their website, this is something about which they are very concerned:
Every day, criminals are invading countless homes and offices across the nation—not by breaking down windows and doors, but by breaking into laptops, personal computers, and wireless devices via hacks and bits of malicious code.
The FBI is not contending that they need to break into these phones to stop a future attack from happening—the owners of the phones are dead. The government is not even contending that there is an established link between these "lone wolves" and known terrorists. For this issue to rise to this level of debate, you would expect there to be some sort of moral dilemma (e.g., decrypt this now or people will die). The fact that there is no such dilemma, and yet many are willing to fold nonetheless, is what is most disturbing to me.
While the defense will likely see the code -- provided the FBI can't argue its way out of disclosing its methods -- it's highly likely the general public won't have access to these details.
LCR 5(g)(8): "A non-party seeking access to a sealed document may intervene in a case for the purpose of filing a motion to unseal the document." So it's possible. The likelihood of success is another matter...
King Arthur: [about the inscription on the rock] What does it say, Brother Maynard? Brother Maynard: It reads, Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathia. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the Castle of REDACTED... King Arthur: What? Brother Maynard: The Castle of REDACTED. Sir Bedevere: What is that? Brother Maynard: He must have been working for the government while carving it. King Arthur: Oh come on! Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says. King Arthur: Look, if he was working for the government, he wouldn't have bothered to carve 'REDACTED'. Sir Galahad: Maybe he was dictating it.
Meanwhile, as Mike Taylor has pointed out, prior to Elsevier suing, Sci-Hub wasn't that widely known and yet now it's getting tons of press coverage. There's a phrase for that kind of thing, isn't there?
So... have you heard the story about how a magistrate judge in California has ordered Apple to help the FBI disable encryption on the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters?
A magistrate judge, an Apple employee, and an FBI agent agree to meet at a local bar. Only the Apple employee makes it. Why? Because the bar didn't have a back door.
I know that Gibson is a real lawyer, because he's represented big famous clients in the press before, including this impressive TV appearance in which he is left "categorically denying" statements that his client appears to have made directly and then having to defend himself when the news anchor points out what his client has actually said.
Are you sure he's a real lawyer, or does he just play one on TV?
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