{"id":20877,"date":"2016-02-20T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20877"},"modified":"2016-02-20T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:21:06","slug":"wapo-fbi-asked-san-bernardino-to-reset-the-password-for-shooters-phone-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20877","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: FBI asked San Bernardino to reset the password for shooter\u2019s phone backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/fbi-asked-san-bernardino-to-reset-the-password-for-shooters-phone-backup\/2016\/02\/20\/21fe9684-d800-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b\">FBI asked San Bernardino to reset the password for shooter\u2019s phone backup<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima and Mark Berman: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the chaotic aftermath of the shootings in San Bernardino in December, FBI investigators seeking to recover data from the iPhone of one of the shooters asked a technician in the California county to reset the phone\u2019s iCloud password.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut that apparent fog-of-war error foreclosed the possibility of an automatic backup to the Apple iCloud servers that might have turned up more clues to the origins of the terrorist attack that killed 14 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe county and the FBI were working together cooperatively to obtain data, and at the point when it became clear the only way to accomplish the task at hand was to reset the iCloud password, the FBI asked the county to do so, and the county complied,\u201d David Wert, a spokesman for San Bernardino County, said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: FBI asked San Bernardino to reset the password for shooter\u2019s phone backup by Ellen Nakashima and Mark Berman: In the chaotic aftermath of the shootings in San Bernardino in December, FBI investigators seeking to recover data from the iPhone &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20878,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions\/20878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}