[Paladin2]

Apple hasn’t already given the backdoor key to 0bama?

[Vendome]

GFY G-Man....

[kiryandil]

The obstructers of justice [Lois Lerner felonies] in the Department of Justice can shove it up their felonious Obamas.

Don't make us pull this van over, DOJ. The adults are getting sick of your backseat whining.

[jdege]

This is sounding a lot like Apple trying desperately to avoid admitting that they’ve added their own secret backdoors and they don’t want their users to know.

If Apple had been using seeing encryption, as they should have been, they’d just have said that they were unable to recover the data.

[Red Steel]

Looks like Apple cannot even break their own encryption.

Well get the NSA to give it a try. ;-)

[Big Giant Head]

How funny. Apple users think the DOJ should be far more open when WE THE PEOPLE ask for information.

[Red Steel]

The question is how many companies have given back doors to Obama?

[basil]

I guess they aren’t interested in the data on my Samsung flip phone—LOL!

[basil]

I guess they aren’t interested in the data on my Samsung flip phone—LOL!

[Swordmaker]

The DOJ seems to think that Apple merely has to change its End User License Agreement to allow them to have a means of getting into iPhones, iPads, or iPod touches with a backdoor, and that Apple is merely using legal objections in claiming they literally cannot comply with any court orders to assist opening iOS devices for search warrants. Even the statement that "Apple . . . claimed it would be nearly impossible to it to access the data on a passcode-locked iOS device running iOS 8 or later" demonstrates the abyss that separates the technological gap between the lawyers arguing this case and the mathematicians who have constructed the 256 bit AES encryption Apple uses to lock their devices. When entangled with the UUID of the device, with multiple-attempt lockouts, it is, in practice, impossible to break the encryption of such an encrypted device, not merely an academic legal exercise. — PING!

Apple's Privacy Encryption
Under Government Assault
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[Darksheare]

Play the audio of R Lee Ermey’s lines from Full Metal Jacket for them.
Why?
Oh, no reason.
They could stand to hear the DYSD line on repeat for hours every time they ask for back doors into my papers.

[Secret Agent Man]

apple’can set it so users could erase their calls and there would be no way to get’that info back. regular phones dont record the conversations. course nsa has its hands up the ass of the phonecos. but still.

who says our private phones have to be able to be opened up to fedgov.

fuch fedgov. let them try to decrypt. theyve got the nsa “experts” and infinite resources. if he sold meth someone had to buy it. sheesh. cant even do actual real policework.

[Tau Food]

The specific case in which the U.S. government needs an iPhone unlocked relates to executing a search warrant on a suspect indicted for possession of methamphetamine.

I'm not sure I understand that argument. Either the guy was in possession of the methamphetamine or he wasn't. They're not going to find any inside his phone.

BTW, if by unlocking the phone, they mean accessing its content, why can't they just cut off the guy's finger and unlock it with his fingerprint? I'm sure the importance of the case warrants an amputation.

[Defiant]

The company also noted, however, that even if it were possible, it would not feel comfortable doing so

I thought Apple couldn't unlock a phone anymore, period. Why the equivocation? Is it actually possible?

[gogeo]

I wonder if the ability to access backdoor could be added through some kind of stealth update?

[Nuc 1.1]

I think the DOJ should shut up and prosecute the IRS and Hillary. Go after real criminals you corrupt bastards at the DOJ.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Our government wants to spy on us by a request rather than a warrant. Apple to their credit is doing what it can to make the government get a warrant. Google on the other hand probably gives the government everything. Looks out here comes CISA to rob you of even more rights!!!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The Police State marches on.

Countdown to tyranny. It’s coming and it isn’t a long way off either.

[discostu]

And with due process they can be. DOJ whines too much.