The Great iPhone Unlocking Controversy
APPLE TO DEFY GOVERNMENT ORDER … AND RIGHTFULLY SO Technology giant Apple will oppose a court You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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i wonder if there will be anybody left on the supreme court by the time this works it’s way up
The negatives outweigh the positives of unlocking that iPhone. Seriously, I’d love to dance Farook’s grave, but I don’t trust the government with the ability to snoop in everyone’s personal bidnus.
The feds could just chop off his thumb to unlock the iphone’s fingerprint home button, though.
Based on some recent episodes with our Federal Government, the Snowen affair, IRS mishandling of tax documents, etc, I come down on the side of Tim Cook and Apple.
There is the potential for more harm from Bureaucrats in three piece suits, walking down the halls in Washington than some crazy Arabs, dressed in seven-day-shitters, tending their goats in the desert.
+ 10,000!!!!
It is funny that Apple will use every bit of info it can find to make money, but want use it to help national security.
I agree Apple should not assist the Feds but also think they should not have free range to mine our private lives for commercial gain.
“I agree Apple should not assist the Feds but also think they should not have free range to mine our private lives for commercial gain.”
They only have “free range” in your life is you use their products. It’s completely voluntary.
Apple could have decided to give the feds what they asked for voluntarily too, without saying anything, and no one would be any wiser to it. IMO you can’t consent to something you can’t know. Who knows what Apple looks at on our iPhones? If they have a policy somewhere who has read it? Who knows if they even follow it?
“IMO you can’t consent to something you can’t know. ”
I assure you buried in Apple’s verbage in EULA’s that everyone agrees that Apple has full access to their personal information.
It’s usually on first boot up, or Apple contracts, etc.
No one reads the fine print, but it’s there and by signing on and using their product you agree to it, if if you don’t know(because you didn’t read the fine print)- it’s not Apple’s fault no one reads anything(including me).
If someone doesn’t like the notion that Apple has free reign over their personal info, they shouldn’t use Apple products and hand over their personal info. to them.
Apple doesn’t really give a damn about our privacy, they may say no to the federal government but I bet they snoop plenty for their own purposes.
They are playing a game so their stocks do not tumble.
Donald Trump believes Apple should be forced to comply. There’s nothing useful on this terrorists phone. What’s this really about?
An act made into law when electronic communications and storage were non-existent. It has absolutely no authority in this day and time. The judge is out of Order.
playing this out in public, while unlocking things behind this smoke screen is also possible, though Apple and its follies sin’t exempt from ISIS and jihad as an appeaser.
And you forget the part of the 4th Amendment about search by warrant. I guess you just toss out the parts of the Constitution you don’t like…..
A better answer would have been, “Our phones are designed so that no one, including the manufacturer, can access the data stored on them unless the owner provides the key.” Until then, you can safely assume government and Apple all have unlimited access to all of the nude pics you took of your girlfriend. Also most of this is moot because any messages sent from the phone have already been subpoenaed and handed over by their service provider.