Posted on 02/25/2016 6:43:50 AM PST by eyeamok
For the record I happen to agree with Apple on unlocking these phones. With that being said, there is a lot of pressure for Apple to do just that. So I propose a Compromise:
Go Ahead and produce an update that UNLOCKS this Phone, but in so doing make the Update MANDATORY FOR ALL IPHONES, Make the update automatically DOWNLOAD ALL INFO from EVERY IPHONE to a Public Website for ALL AMERICANS to see. Then listen to the Government Cry because ALL INFO from Every Government Employee with an Iphone is NOW PUBLIC! Why would they complain anyway, if they have NOTHING to HIDE, they have NOTHING to worry about right? That is what the Police and Government Agents always say isn't it? Then go ahead and make the update and PUBLISH ALL INFO FROM EVERY IPHONE, they are Begging you to do this, in fact they are trying to FORCE YOU TO DO EXACTLY THIS! GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT in SPADES!!!
This is what they want right?
1-The FBI HAD access to all the data they wanted, but LOCKED THEMSELVES OUT!
2-The FBI is LYING when they assert they only want access to this one phone.
3-The FBI insists on having the code to unlock the device. (actually, the code to prevent the phone from locking after 10 unsuccessful password attempts).
4-Once the FBI has that ability, it can AND WILL use it on any iPhone they please.
5-The FBI has 12 OTHER iPhones they want access to, waiting in the wings.
6-New York City has 175!!!!!!!
Snowden, is that you?
An intriguing thought, just that the patch would only allow unlimited guesses at the passcode on the phone, and only work on old devices. The ones who are drooling over this patch are those in China, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, as the phones are more common in those locations, and prosecuting dissenters, Christians and others are a much higher priority.
This guy Tim Cook is acting as though he is the Governor of the State of Apple.
The government lets the terrorists in. Then the terrorists do what terrorists do and then the government wants to violate our rights because of the actions of the terrorists they let in the country. No way we should let them do it.
Wasn’t one of the shooters a government employee. Perhaps the Apple kabuki theater is to obscure that fact. How many terrorists are in the employ of governments at all levels.
How about tossing his mother and the ones that were in the garage with them. I’d be surprised if there was anything on the company phone that would be of value.
Hahaha...I was going to come in, fists swinging (figuratively speaking!)
If you want to blame somebody, blame the Founding Fathers. They're the brainiacs who came to the brilliant conclusion that a nation that values safety over Liberty will end up with neither.
Stupid 4th Amendment.
P.S. If this is all it takes to fight terrorism, what are we doing throwing tens of billions of dollars at The FIB every year? Trust me. They know everything they need to know about Farooq's and Sashimi's accomplices.
This is about YOU.
Hi G Larry,
You speak truth. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I think it’s possible that the “unlocking” of this phone is a false flag. I believe the FBI has already retrieved all available information from the phone, and is using the horrendous acts in San Bernadino as an emotional reason to get a backdoor.
If it is truly information they seek, there are other alternatives available without conscripting service and mandating actions.
If they don’t have all information already, they should turn to the offer of John McAfee to hack into it. The fact they don’t, leads me to believe it’s not about the information, it’s about commanding compliance to enable spying.
Apple, call the FBI’s bluff: offer to go behind closed doors at Apple with the FBI’s hacking software, use the software to back the password, retrieve the data, all while the FBI waits outside and then give the data to the FBI and tell it to go away.
Rumor has it that the FBI is offering Edward Snowden and Kevin Mitnick full pardons if they’ll crack an iPhone...
I am with you Texas Eagle, Apple needs to “just say no”.
I believe that, through the NSA or other nefarious means, they have the full contents of every call, voice message, text, email, and web search/contact.
This is VERY illegal, as the NSA is only supposed to collect metadata, not content.
They cannot use this data without 'spilling the beans' and damning themselves.
They need Apple to knuckle under and give them cover as they use the illegally acquired data.
Sure. Just give FED.GOV power over everything.
I swear, this is SUCH a doomed country. When y'all walk to the gulag, I will be dead, with a pistol in my hand.
Well, I am glad you feel that way and wanted to share it with the world.
I wonder how your employees would feel if the government came into where you worked and commanded them to create a piece of work so that they could snoop on the people they want. Now this piece of work doesn’t exist. And, no they will not be compensated. And, by the way, all of the information they will get is readily available through other sources.
I know this sounds like BS from Apple. But sometimes we have to let some bad guys slip by in order to protect our citizens from government abuse. Some guy named Scalia wrote that.
NSA does NOT have content, only meta-data.
Numbers called, location, how long.....
Garbo lives again.
“All warfare is based on deception.
Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy.
Feign disorder, and crush him.
– Sun Tzu, the Art of War”
As CEO he is.
The US Government has the BEST HACKERS money can buy, why do they need Apple to decode a password they changed? Even my step Daughter can jail break a IPHONE and she is just a IT professional with her own business. ROFLOL....Trump made his call on a IPHONE.
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