The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing
Could someone ELI5 how this is even conceptually possible? I suppose that is exactly what the ACLU was trying to find out, but I thought something like AES-256 should be impossible in principle to break.So what type of thing is most likely happening? Are hardware vendors secretly installing back doors? is there some sort of software encryption standard that's compromised? Or some kind of secret breakthrough in computation theory that easily "solves" encryption? Or maybe, bolstered by NSA surveillance, they just know passwords and unlock codes to devices?Again, I understand that that is the exact mystery here, but I would appreciate knowing if one or more of the possibilities is conceptually more likely than the others.