Posted on 03/10/2016 5:29:37 PM PST by Nachum
The Department of Justice on Thursday accused Apple of willfully obstructing the FBI’s efforts to access the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, in what appeared to be an escalation of the simmering legal battle.
"The government and the community need to know what is on the terrorist's phone and the government needs Apple's assistance to find out," prosecutors wrote in a new motion urging a federal judge in California to force Apple to comply with its demand.
Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym last month ordered Apple to build a piece of software disabling a security feature on the phone to allow investigators to hack into it. Apple has opposed the order with its own motion to vacate, claiming that the government’s request would set a dangerous precedent and undermine users’ privacy.
The tech giant argues that forcing it to create new software that doesn't already exist and which it considers harmful would inappropriately broaden the scope of the law on which the government is basing its case.
Apple has primarily cast its decision to oppose the California court order as a defense of privacy rights — a position the Justice Department pushed back against in its filing.
“Apple’s rhetoric is not only false, but also corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights: the courts, the Fourth Amendment, longstanding precedent and venerable laws, and the democratically elected branches of government,” prosecutors wrote.
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They’re projecting.
“...but also corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights”
Safegurad our liberty and rights? Like they did just recently in Oregone? Have the FBI get back to us when Hillary is on trial!
Can a “Person” or “Persons” be Forced under Law to perform Labor for the Government or ANYONE, If NO CRIME had been Committed??
Or would that be Involuntary Servitude??
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Benito Mussolini
Looks like the perfect reason to shut down the monster data mining center-DIGIS in Salt Lake City. The NSA should already have all the info concerning these terrorists.
And Salt Lake City can get it’s water back.
They refuse to violate the woman terrorists privacy by looking at her facebook page. But they really need into your Iphone to keep you safe.
And that’s “safe” from the people they are bringing in from every Islamic country and Cartel on earth.
This incident is not Apple’s fault. The government was at fault in letting these two animals into the U.S.
Stop the spying; stop mohammedan immigration instead.
Less violence, less loss of liberty. Win/win.
Dont give them a backdoor into millions of smartphones
Resist!
The phone belongs to San Bernardino County; the county/FBI had access to the phone because they changed the password. It isn’t Apple’s fault the the government screwed up. The terrorists had personal phones that they destroyed - it’s more probable that any valuable information would have been on those phones, not on the phone issued by the county.
I’m beginning to believe that the government already has access to the phones (through their own hacking experts) and this whole thing is a smokescreen to convince users that they do not.
let us not forget it was the actions of law enforcement that rendered the phone in it’s current state.
Funny that.
The DOJ...arguably the most corrupt agency in our cesspool of a government, calling anything other than themselves corrosive.
No.. They really are that stupid that they locked themselves out of it and are using this mistake as a trojan horse to advance their want to be able to get into any phone.
Just today on FR there was a story about the FBI monitoring school children to determine who might turn out to be bad guys
yes, govt already hacked them.. Now its time to go
to the courts and get “ permission” to officially
go into the phones.
Without the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments, just imagine how much easier law enforcement’s job would be!
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