Posted on 02/17/2016 8:49:09 AM PST by pgyanke
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump bashed the tech company Apple today for refusing to help investigators access the iPhone of a San Bernardino attacker.
"I agree 100 percent with the courts," he said on "Fox and Friends" this morning. "In that case, we should open it up."
"To think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cell phone -- who do they think they are?" Trump said. "No, we have to open it up."
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Spare me. Apple to me is taking this too far. The FBI is looking for help with a specific phone tied to a specific crime. Last I checked, that was consistent with the Constitution which requires probable cause for a search warrant. I think there is more than such here.
Trump lost me on this.
Yep, if Apple wants to protect the Muzzies, that’s their business.
The phone was given to the person by the County....it isn’t his/her personal cell phone...
I don’t agree with Trump on this issue, because its another way to for the government to get into our private lives, but on the other hand, it was given to a ‘terrorist organization’ by the County and we should know what’s on it...
So there we are...do we, and hope the government will stop at that or do we not and don’t know who the rest of the ‘terrorist cell’ is?
Who knew Presidents needed to worry about stuff like this?
The problem is that, by providing the decryption algorithm to the FBI, Apple opens up the possibility of hacking YOUR iphone WITHOUT probable cause.
I don’t like this.
Yeah, would want to deny a dead terrorist the right to have his privacy invaded.
The feds want into the phone? What are they looking for?
Hey!
Remember the guy who was ordered to delete the records of terrorists he was finding on the web (because it violated their social media safe space?)? Let’s recover those records! He had found the chick’s group. And probably a lot more.
Restart his type of investigation. Oops that means Profiling.
This ‘crisis’ is just an excuse to get into everyone’s phone.
Apple should agree to perform the decryption in their offices with the FBI present but unable to read the decryption logic.
Apple is siding with the muslim terrorist, instead of helping the country find out who he was in contact with and who could still be here ready for more murder.
You know the government doesn’t just want access to one phone. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
Perhaps it would be better if the government didn’t let the damned terrorists into the country in the first place.
Why can’t Apple simple have their own technicians get the info from the phone and give the FBI the info. Then there is no need for any backdoors.
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If Apple built the damn thing they know how to open it up. It would be stupid not to realize Apple is lying. How dumb do they think we are.
Trump is right. They already have the code but as good communists liberals Apple is, they would rather have dead Americans that not.
Trump for President.
Yes.
That would maintain the chain of custody but protect from potential FBI overstepping.
I don’t even see why they need anything off his phone.
They were lone wolves right? Not connected to anyone or anything else, certainly not islam.
Trump’s point is that Apple can hack this one phone without giving the government a backdoor to ALL apple phones.
If Apple techs can get the info, then there is a backdoor by definition.
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