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To: Swordmaker

Your comment is now moot. The FBI has withdrawn their request for the court order. Apple has apparently lost the war with their incredibly stupid PR stunt. They could have voluntarily assisted the FBI with this terror investigation and maintained control over access to their devices, but it appears that the FBI no longer needs them...


91 posted on 03/30/2016 10:56:00 PM PDT by Synthesist
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To: Synthesist; ctdonath2; null and void
Your comment is now moot. The FBI has withdrawn their request for the court order. Apple has apparently lost the war with their incredibly stupid PR stunt. They could have voluntarily assisted the FBI with this terror investigation and maintained control over access to their devices, but it appears that the FBI no longer needs them...

Your claim that it was "an incredibly stupid PR stunt" has no basis in fact. None what so ever. Apple position has far more support in LAW than does the FBI's. You are grasping at straws in your delusions. Apple's purpose was to protect the privacy and security of over 800 million iOS device users . . . many of whom are corporations who rely on that security and privacy for company secrets and even more are GOVERNMENTS including ours who PRESSURED Apple into increasing its security so that our government agencies could rely on the security and invulnerability of iOS devices in their departments. To make a version of iOS with a back door in it would VIOLATE THOSE CONTRACTS, both literal and implied.

You are an idiot if you think otherwise and think this was just a PR stunt, going up against the foremost law enforcement agency in the world, and the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, and thumbing their nose at the Federal Courts if Apple did not have a strong LEGAL case and argument. Apple WON in a New York Federal Court, having an exactly similar Federal Court order vacated. This is NOT a PR Stunt. This is about protecting YOUR civil rights.

93 posted on 03/30/2016 11:09:08 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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