Posted on 03/10/2015 3:43:38 PM PDT by dennisw
Apple released iPhone 6 with new, powerful encryption setting that should make it much harder for law enforcement and surveillance groups like the FBI and the NSA from accessing users’ emails, photos and contacts. After Edward Snowden revelations last year, privacy-minded users may be happy about the new feature, but law enforcement is decidedly not.
At a news conference Thursday, FBI Director James Comey criticized Apple’s encryption, which scrambles information on the new iPhone 6 using a code that could take “more than five-and-a-half years to try all combinations of a six-character alphanumeric passcode with lowercase letters and numbers,”
Comey accused Apple of creating a means for criminals to evade the law, the New York Times reports. “What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law,” he said.
However, major U.S. tech companies like Apple and Google argue that they can’t do business if customers believe their data isn’t secure, particularly in foreign markets like China and Europe, where consumers fear American tech products might come pre-loaded with ways for American surveillance agencies to access their data. On top of that, a security expert told the Times that law enforcement complaints about Apple’s encrypted were likely exaggerated, as access to call logs, email logs, iCloud, Gmail logs, as well as geolocation information from phone carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless and other data is relatively unfettered, particularly if police get a warrant.
A senior official told the Times that terrorists could use the iPhone 6 to store their data and evade law enforcement. “Terrorists will figure this out,” along with savvy criminals and paranoid dictators, one senior official predicted. Another said, “It’s like taking out an ad that says, ‘Here’s how to avoid surveillance — even legal surveillance.'”
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Do they protest too much?
Then let us surveil you.
Only government officials like myself or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama should be allowed to hold themselves above the law.
he continued.
I thought the Supreme Court decided in the 70s that there is a Constiutional right to privacy?
Yeah, but only to things YOU disagree with. All the stuff you like, too bad.
/s, in case it’s needed.
Hey, FBI and NSA!!! I know you have some slime reading this so here goes:
I fought the Cold War and Communism since I entered the military at the age if 17. I fought for freedom and liberty not for Government takeover. I saw people die fighting the Cold War. YOU people at the FBI, NSA, and any other Government employee who thinks they are better than any private citizen in this country are nothing but nasty, murdering, Communist trash. Most of you have mediocre IQs and if you did not have your over-paid Government job you would be flipping burgers at MacDonalds, and probably badly at that.
Most of you Government employees were hired to be in the NSA and FBI because you were stupid and the politicians know if they let you have power over people and pay you way more than you are worth then you will be loyal to them and will have no compunction in the murder and mayhem of Government tyranny.
“Do they protest too much?”
Oh Lordy, anything but that briar patch!
“Do they protest too much?”
I’m absolutely certain they can crack it, but it’s expensive in terms of computing power and electricity. So, they can’t examine EVERY conversation...
Why, exactly, is that bad?
“However, major U.S. tech companies like Apple and Google argue that they can’t do business if customers believe their data isn’t secure, particularly in foreign markets like China and Europe, where consumers fear American tech products might come pre-loaded with ways for American surveillance agencies to access their data.”
This has ALREADY hurt US based companies.
It wasn’t that long ago when people got nervous about Lenovo and Huawei...what happened to that?
I suspect the government's getting whatever it likes from Apple.
His assumption/premise is fatally flawed. Apple isn’t doing it to expressly help people breaking the law.
This is fascinating because it just goes to show where the brains really are in this field of high tech. I’m not sure Apple should cooperate after all the abusive NSA snooping and misuse of personal information that has gone on in recent years. It has come down to a total lack of trust in government and now the violators are reaping their own whirlwind.
Keyword is bolded. COULD take more than, but ol' Mr. Cray is prolly a lot quicker than that!
“...terrorists could use the iPhone 6 to store their data and evade law enforcement. But it’s not them we are concerned about as much as the resistance, Tea Partiers and such who are a threat to the regime.”
Truth be told.
Just a moment while I find my violin... and find a tweezers to pick it up with....
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