Posted on 02/24/2016 7:49:31 AM PST by Carismar
Has the Apple kowtow been confirmed?
My take on this whole thing is can the government force you to create something you don’t want to create that goes against your will. Kind of like forcing someone to speak when questioned. Jesus was silent when questioned by the authorities.
Wow, breaking news. You are saying a company had to behave differently in a communist dictatorship than they do in America?
What’s your point? That red China should set policy for how companies must act here?
China at least, is supposed to be a police state. Not the US.
“If guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns”
I’m just saying, we should know if Apple gave the golden key to China.
In business, you weave cotton, sell it to Indians for opium, sell that to Chinese for tea, sell tea to English for cotton goods to take to India. With profit on every leg. What's the problem?
But where do you draw the line?
We have an agreement. I don’t make or sell iPhones and Apple doesn’t tell me how to use one.
I would not want to cross swords with a Swordmaker!
But I would like to hear your take on this article.
So if you were searched without a warrant in China, then returned to the US, would you not be able to object if the US authorities also tried to search you without a warrant?
It’s very easy to maintain public sympathy when the public loves your products.
I don’t get your point.
Here’s how to solve Apple’s encryption dilemma:
Make encryption an app that numerous independent companies can provide. Each manufacturer can do encryption as it pleases. Each manufacturer can decide on a backdoor strategy. All Apple does is provide a single interface that all of the apps use. You could write your own app.
Would the government try to make backdoor rules applicable to all of the app manufacturers? Maybe, but I think black-market apps would appear. The government could never track all of them down. Once an app was installed on an iPhone, there would be nothing in it that would identify the producer of the app.
Apple thinks they should sell in China. China won’t go for it.
Every cell phone maker tells you how to use it. What you can install on it. Heck they even complied with Obamas requirement for the Presidential Alert.
Swordmaker is Steve Jobs. He was cloned before the original passed on.
He just does not have the money. Darn that Steve Jobs!
You miss my point. Yes, they give operational instructions, but they do not tell me what to say, or prevent me from using it to explode an I. E. D.
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