USA Today alters logo to support Apple in fight against U.S. government overreach
Posted on 02/18/2016 6:53:17 PM PST by Swordmaker
USA Today has altered their logo to support Apple’s fight against U.S. government overreach.
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of their customers.
The United States government is asking Apple to hack their own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect their customers -- including tens of millions of American citizens -- from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect Apple’s users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make their users less safe.
Apple opposes this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. Obviously, USA Today agrees:
USA Today alters logo to support Apple in fight against U.S. government overreach
Go see the altered logo and read some of USA Today‘s articles here.
MacDailyNews Take: We commend USA Today for taking a stand for freedom and privacy right down to the core of their identity.
No, it's the difference between supplying a single key, versus rebuilding an operating system that can unlock a billion phones.
Don't worry about it. Big words. Eat your cereal and don't be late for school.
Savage says Apple is afraid of being targeted by the muzzies. I agree.
I’m all for the courts ordering Apple to give the feds the info from the phone. But that phone only! Do not give the feds the authority to open anyone’s phone at will.
Here’s what we will be hearing soon. Islam is a religion and the separation of church and state forbids the government from unlocking any “religious” follower’s phone.
But, keep in mine, we’re NOT at war with Islam. /s
Related thread: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3398812/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
Agreed, like any other search and seizure, a court order with due process is fine with me. They don’t have to give away the keys.
Agree. We've been giving up too many rights to an overreaching government. Shades of the book "1984". No privacy, no dignity, no freedom because of these little steps by government. Soon, no cash, all transactions monitored. Checkpoints everywhere, with travel restricted. We'll be asked to turn in neighbors and relatives who aren't in lockstep with government restrictions. Many don't see the writing on the wall, if Apple is forced to cave in. Apple should stand firm against government overreach.
Text of the court order here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160216/17393733617/no-judge-did-not-just-order-apple-to-break-encryption-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-to-create-new-backdoor.shtml
Here is the heart of it:
“Apple’s reasonable technical assistance shall accomplish the following three important functions: (1) it will bypass or disable the auto-erase function whether or not it has been enabled; (2) it will enable the FBI to submit passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE for testing electronically via the physical device port, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or other protocol available on the SUBJECT DEVICE and (3) it will ensure that when the FBI submits passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE, software running on the device will not purposefully introduce any additional delay between passcode attempts beyond what is incurred by Apple hardware.
Apple’s reasonable technical assistance may include, but is not limited to: providing the FBI with a signed iPhone Software file, recovery bundle, or other Software Image File (”SIF”) that can be loaded onto the SUBJECT DEVICE. The SIF will load and run from Random Access Memory and will not modify the iOS on the actual phone, the user data partition or system partition on the device’s flash memory. The SIF will be coded by Apple with a unique identifier of the phone so that the SIF would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE. The SIF will be loaded via Device Firmware Upgrade (”DFU”) mode, recovery mode, or other applicable mode available to the FBI. Once active on the SUBJECT DEVICE, the SIF will accomplish the three functions specified in paragraph 2. The SIF will be loaded on the SUBJECT DEVICE at either a government facility, or alternatively, at an Apple facility; if the latter, Apple shall provide the government with remote access to the SUBJECT DEVICE through a computer allowing the government to conduct passcode recovery analysis.
If Apple determines that it can achieve the three functions stated above in paragraph 2, as well as the functionality set forth in paragraph 3, using an alternate technological means from that recommended by the government, and the government concurs, Apple may comply with this Order in that way.”
I already have one, its called a safe. I am exempt from Constitutionally lawful searches because they would have to use a lock smith to get into it.
safes can be opened.
phones can be cracked, what’s your point?
Then why is everyone up in arms about the i-phone, The FBI should just crack it.
Any hardware level ,
programmer with,
a data map and zsh,
can unlock the iPhone.Apple has done for the FBI ,
over 70 times before.Why not now ?,
Who is implicated ?
Just like opening my safe, they need expert assistance. It not unreasonable to ask for that assistance.
Unconcionable behavior on the part of Apple. No excuse.
Do you agree with this article, or don’t you want to say? I believe they can and should get into just this phone. I don’t think it needs to compromise anyone else’s phone or privacy. These guys are criminals and this is evidence. It may lead to saving who knows how many lives. I don’t think that this is any different then investigating someone’s house if they are being tried for terrorism and murder. We have privacy of home, but that goes when there is every reason to believe that someone is a terrorist and murdered people. Then the police get a warrant. This should not happen without a warrant.
Apple is 100% right in this fight. What the government wants is the source code that will allow it to gain back door entrance to EVERY iPhone at will. Don’t believe all the “national security” bullshit that supposedly justifies this grab for warrantless intrusion into EVERYONE’s private affairs at ANY time. Good people are far too willing to give away their liberty whenever Big Brother tells them it’s for their own good. Just remember, the safest place on earth is inside a maximum security prison cell.
Must get embarrassing walking around wetting your pants like that all the time...
Apple’s encryption allows every man and woman to keep his private information private. The scary thing about this issue is not the fact that the crypto is unbreakable, it’s people like YOURSELF whom think that you’re entitled to violate others’ privacy at will.
Criminals have no right to privacy. The fourth amendment defines searches not your idealized “right to privacy.” There’s is no fight to hide e diencephalic from an authorized police search. Instead of worrying about the dampness of my pants, you should worry about letting every criminal hide behind an iPhone.
But it was selective wasn’t it. The government wants a permanent backdoor installed on iPhone so they can access them whenever they want to.
You’re sure no libertarian.
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