Myself, I suspect the iPhone and etc. have already been cracked by the government and they’re lying about not being able to get into them as a way to lull people into being less careful with cell phones. Not like I ever have anything important to say, but if it’s personal or whatever I sure don’t say it online or on the phone.
That's doubtful. Apple and Google are staking their reputations on the line with this claim. They're more afraid of consumer backlash than they are of of our government's threat of unprosecuted pedophiles. And consumers are demanding this level of privacy.
We can all thank Jennifer Lawrence.
Agreed. If they can’t crack the code on your iPhone they are wasting their time trying to intercept Russian or ChiCom signals.
You may be right. The government lies to us constantly, as a matter of course. They lie when they could just as easily tell the truth, without damaging national security. Lying is what they do best.
“I suspect the iPhone and etc. have already been cracked by the government and they’re lying about not being able to get into them as a way to lull people into being less careful with cell phones.”
Yes, and no.
They can crack just about anything with application of a bit of computing power. But the problem is, they aren’t used to having to do this to collect everybody’s data. Now they have to actually get off their lazy gov’t @sses and figure out who the criminals are and focus only on them - rather than simply collect “everything” all the time.
Psychopaths - to the last one - all those in gov’t who think they should be able to snoop on everyone all the time.