Apple v. FBI
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Posted on 03/11/2016 11:12:28 PM PST by Swordmaker
The FBI's attempts to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists is not just about accessing information about the attack, but changing the architecture of the device's mobile operating system, former CIA director James Woolsey said Friday.
"The last time I looked into the language on this with some care, it did seem to me as if the FBI was trying to get a right essentially to effectively decide what kind of an operating system Apple was going to have, and that they were not just trying to get into one phone. They were trying to change some important aspect of Apple's operating system," Woolsey told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
Lawmakers and tech companies have long been at odds over the encryption being built into consumer devices.
Tech companies generally say encryption is necessary to protect their customers' privacy in a world besieged by data breaches. But national security and law enforcement officials worry it is creating a powerful tool for terrorists to communicate covertly and putting up high-tech roadblocks to investigations.
The official seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen on an iPhone's camera screen outside the J. Edgar Hoover headquarters February 23, 2016 in Washington, DC.
The agency should not have the right to restructure Apple's iOS in perpetuity, Woolsey said.
"I don't think they're very good telephone designers, and I don't think that is their cache," he said.
The tech giant has refused a U.S. magistrate's order to create software that would allow the FBI to circumvent security measures built into the operating system on an iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife killed 14 people at a county government facility in San Bernardino, California, in December.
The bureau could likely unlock the iPhone, Woolsey said, but the manner in which it wants to accomplish that goal would make it necessary for Apple to create a backdoor into its phones. The company shouldn't have to do that, he said.
Woolsey, who is now the chairman at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, spoke from the Young Presidents' Organization Conference in Dubai.
Amendment IVThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Methinks that source code for an operating system falls under Apple being secure in their "papers".
Fuch fedgov.
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It's also been ruled that software is speech. Therefore the FBI is trying to force Apple into government ordered SPEECH, they don't want to do. First Amendment issue.
“Woolsey, who is now the chairman at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, spoke from the Young Presidents’ Organization Conference in Dubai.”
Hmmmmmmmphhhhhh.
Woolsey is correct.
Only to add fuel to the fire....we are only a couple of years away from cars being delivered off to the lot to you....with an enormous amount of computing power built into them. Will the FBI go to Ford, Chevy and GM....demanding a back-door into that technology as well?
The fact that Apple refused to unlock the phone and has allowed this to become a public issue means that hundreds of highly skilled college kids are now looking for a back door into Apple phones.
I’ll wager $10 that someone publishes the solution to this puzzle on the Internet before Labor Day.
You're a cheapskate. People have been offered millions to do it. Maybe you can wager something more substantial, like your freedom. Because that's what is at stake with this renegade government.
Freedom from what?
As long as you don’t cheat on your taxes, sell drugs, launder money, conspire to kill people, or download child pornography, nobody cares what you do on your phone, and that includes our renegade government.
someone queue a captain obvious graphic
Renew they are all focused on this one case.
At the very same time they are ignoring the thousands of classified emails that were in Hillary’s private email server.
How can anyone believe these hypocritical lying clowns anymore?
The worthless lapdog media will be continue to be complicit with it too.
And the media wonders why they do not have the credibility they once did.
Everyone knows they are bought out and compromised.
Youleft out :don’t criticize any government official or make dissenting comments regarding globull warming,government approved sexual deviancy,or any approved groupthink idea.
Your position or excuse is always the one used to justify tyrnny.”If you are not doing anything wrong why do you need privacy?” is the cry of every dictator.
I fear you are naive. Your list is in the process of growing larger.
In the future it could easily include:
Denying “climate change”.
Buying ammunition.
Typing “hate” speech.
Spoken like a true Serf.
The Antichrist system is here, and it must have total and complete control. Revelation 13 demands it.
Our government considers conservatives and soldiers returning from Afghanistan as “terrorists” and have repeatedly stated as much.
Even West Point put out a “study” saying same.
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