Credit: Apple
Posted on 02/19/2016 12:13:07 AM PST by Swordmaker
There's a war going on. You're part of it and, like it or not, you're going to have to take sides.
What am I talking about? I'm talking about global government in its creeping attack on encryption, because the governments are calling this wrong. They are using arguments of national security to advance an agenda that ultimately leaves us all less secure.
They say they want Apple to create a way to break into a criminal's iPhone. Now, I'm going to gloss over the horror of the crime, though as we already know the criminals are guilty, what's to be gained?
Not much.
If Apple is forced to comply with this demand, then every other tech firm will be bought into line. Apple is only a poster child in this exchange.
Do you really think the U.S. government is going to be the only government to demand access to the back door key, once such a back door exists? Wake up! Once Apple provides access to one government, it will be forced to provide similar access to every government of every country on the planet in which it does business.
That's only the beginning.
Think about the multiple faces of U.S. law enforcement. CIA, DEA, DOJ, NYPD, IRS and all those other acronyms, each of which will demand access to this back door key.
Don't you think every security service on the planet will want the same thing, from Russia to China, Saudi Arabia to Nigeria and everywhere else? They will all want access. If Apple can't stop the FBI from accessing it, how will it stop governments elsewhere?
This means that in a relatively short space of time there'll be a lot of people equipped with the keys to the encrypted kingdom.
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When will Eric Holder comply with the subpoena for his F&F files? A judge finally ruled last month that 0bimbo’s Executive Privilege is bogus.
The FedMob doesn’t have to comply with Federal subpoenas.
We all should be applauding Apple! It’s hard for me to countenance people in our government so willing to trample on The Consritution.
I would think after all this time any accomplices would be long gone
Too cute by half.
How about having the Feds start by doing decent background check on K-1 Fiance Visas? That alone might have prevented this tragedy.
WRONG! We are more secure today than ever, especially compared to the "security" we had before mobile phones became popular.
The FBI had to get a court order for a wire tap on a land line.
Today, the FBI has a court order for one specific iPhone. We should help them to keep our country safe from terrorists.
Until the next terrorist strike?
FBI should engage private IT to decode phones. Well, now that I think of it, those phones will be in Arabic, limiting the number of Arabic-capable ITs.
:-/
Absolutely! This simply a very thinly-veiled attempt to get Apple to roll over on the larger issue of allowing government unfettered access to private information. Of course the likely outcome will come from some Commie Barak Obama-appointed blacked-robed bastard “Ferral Judge.”
There is a really good discussion about the FBI request to Apple on Twit.tv with Leo LaPorte, “The Tech Guy” and Steve Gibson from “Security Now” (he joins the discussion in the middle of the show).
It is on the Twit.TV show “This Week in Google”. You can watch it by streaming the video, or downloading the video or audio (for free) at this URL.
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/340?autostart=false
and pedophiles like Bill Clinton and mob guys and drug dealers etc.
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