Last week we heard about Apple vs FBI in the fight over a locked iPhone containing presumably valuable data regarding the San Bernardino attackers who killed 14 innocent people. Last night we heard about a gunman who randomly shot people in Kalamazoo, MI who happens to be a driver for Uber. There is no direct connection between the topic of this blog and these two incidences though some indirect link exists and I will leave it to your imagination.

Regardless of our individual positions on Apple’s stand, I would be curious to know what they find in the iPhone that they cannot find elsewhere. In this so well connected and cloud driven world where every vendor seem to want you to sync all of your information with their cloud services, you must be pretty deliberate and careful about not syncing your data with other cloud based systems. A bigger question I have is, with such vast amounts of available data and sophisticated analysis tools, what prevented law enforcement from picking up something like this? Impure data? Inconclusive evidence?

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