FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone

ggm

If she'd held her finger on the reader long enough wouldn't it have force powered down the mac? (from the article, they held her finger on the reader. Unlike the phone, this did unlock the mac)

al_borland

I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that someone can be compelled to give up their biometric login, when a password is off limits. It feels like this goes against the spirit of the 5th amendment. This is especially true as the industry pushes more and more toward Passkeys and other passwordless means of login, which rely more and more on biometrics.

jauntywundrkind

The judge also blocked the FBI from reading any of the data they found, a week ago! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-blocks-doj-from-searching... And thank the stars! This is incredibly chilling deeply disturbing an event to have happened at all. Raiding journalists like this is wild. The judge is pretty pissed that the FBI for not telling them how illegal this search was in the first place. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/judge-rips-washingto... It's incredible what a spineless weak willed authoritarian group of losers are running things now. Zero spine, just lawless pathetic intimidation at every turn. What shrill animals.

Kiboneu

Idea: canary fingers. You register a few digits that wipe filesystem keys from memory so that no further biometrics can be used. It’s like what happens when you hold the power button on an iphone, but with a fun russian roulette twist.

sourcegrift

Even Europe has become authoritarian these days. Specially UK. I'm praying for the world