And we have a Winner!
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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Apple themselves can’t crack iOS 8 or beyond. I also don’t think Trump is being fascist about it. The phone did belong to a known terrorist and killer.
Still, I’m glad Apple has done such a good job with security. Because our phones have become so much more personal, it’s important.
You cannot create a backdoor, just for government with a valid warrant. If a backdoor exists, it can/will be used, exploited by anyone with mal intent.
On what charge?
Let Apple decrypt the information and provide it to the government.
No, the government has gotten a lawful warrant in this case to search the property of a “suspected” criminal. The problem is, that Apple appears, according to the Tech Blogs, to have made an unbreakable system.
I own an Apple 6+, so they're protecting me, too.
And we have a Winner!
What, do we need another 9/11 to get them to cooperate. Would they?
I doubt very much that the federal government really needs Apples assistance with this. They have people that can do this. They just want to show us that Apple is under the government thumb just like yahoo and Google are.
What is on the phone is the encrypted data. The FBI surely already has downloaded that.
Apparently, they can’t.
Apple does not have to give up their proprietary knowledge to help the FBI.
Its a bullcrap argument.
Trump wants Apple to help crack one phone.
With that being said, they should be charged with aiding and abetting known international terrorists, and ALL of their US employees and corporate officers and financiers be held criminally liable.
Same goes for any company that does business in the US, and refuses to cooperate with the feds when it comes to national security.
I agree, This is all a “dog and pony” show to try to legitimize the government having complete access to phones. I suspect there is nothing encrypted on that phone that they don’t already have.
I don’t have a problem with Apple fighting back on that request, as it is overly broad. I do have a hard time believing that there is no hidden backdoor. It could be that Apple doesn’t want the FBI to know it exists, because then the NSA, knowing it is there, could try to figure out how to open it.
Forcing them to develop a process to break what they previously advertised as being unbreakable to their customers doesn’t seem to be constitutional, to me.
Freegards
I concur, pursuing terrorists is important, but the judge in this case is compelling Apple to create software that does not currently exist, and then provide it to the government.
Further, the legislation they are using is about 200 years old. Apple argues in their public statement that this legislation is mis-applied and that if Congress wants the FBI to have this authority, they need to pass legislation saying so.
It is also important to keep the Executive Branch from compelling individuals and groups to take actions without authority from the Congress. Where at least there is the possibility of prior debate.
There is much information to be gained from this phone, which would be of interest to the security of the US.
1. If there is an encryption algorithm unique to terrorist cells, repeatedly used by terrorist organizations, decryption of that phone, could lead to timely information on other terror threats nationwide. Obviously this would not BE on other phones so would be of specific limited use.
2. The information on this specific phone could lead to the identification and apprehension of others who would possibly hurt or maime US citizens.
3. The technology gained could improve our abilities to protect citizens, and up our game in the tech arena.
They are protecting their interests ... they want the Iranian cell phone market.
The right way to handle this would be for the government to turn the phone over to Apple and ask them to break into the phone and record everything on it. Put it on a DVD and give it and the DVD back to the feds.
That way, Apple would be helping the government without trashing everyone else’s privacy.
But since when does the government use common sense?
Apple is no run by fools. I suspect they have read “The Art of the Deal”.
Apple says that what the feds really want is for them to give the feds a back door to the phones, which would destroy the privacy of every Apple user and would more than likely result in Apple users moving to another brand.
Apple cannot do so. The encryption is no more breakable by them than by the FBI, absent the key used by the phone owner.
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