[cnbeuiwx]

Im surprised nobody is discussing the reason for the pull. Obviously the FBI has copied all the data on the server and are now using a backdoor in the encryption or brute force cracking to get into the information.

There is no such thing as safe data once the physical server is confiscated, and people shouldnt trust standard encryption algorithms to be safe from backdoors.

Microsoft Windows has had backdoors for a long time I reckon. Some of it are called "bugs" once its discoved and fixed with Windows Updates. Other stuff gets introduced that way as well.

Or they could have port knocking techniques built into the closed source kernel to allow people who know the code to enter the computer without any trace.

[corin_]

If you were the FBI, and you had a backdoor already built into the software running on that server, would you really confiscate it and take four days to use it rather than leaving it running and hoping nobody notices you came by to activate it, and/or having it be activated over the network?

[cnbeuiwx]

The server was probably not running Windows.

[corin_]

Was replying to "are now using a backdoor in the encryption".