[knarf]

Has too many muzzies in his employ .... foolish, foolish man ....

Can you spell Trojan Horse NOW ??

[Bryan24]

What is Apple worried about? That the government will keep the encryption key?

This looks bad for Apple all the way around.

[DiogenesLamp]

Apple acknowledged that it could extract such data if it wanted to.

Whoa. If this is the same type of phone, this puts an entirely new spin on it, doesn't it? :)

[Guenevere]

Trump said tonight Apple is in the wrong....and should comply

[skr]

I’m no computer tech/software developer, but can’t they write another encryption program and update every iPhone but that one?

If they’ve already done this before, there’s no good reason for them to not get the FBI into the murderers’ phones now.

[dfwgator]

So NOW the government is so concerned with fighting terrorism. Where the f were they when they allowed the terrorists into the country in the first place?

[Rome2000]

Yes but Apple wasnt run by a faggot back then.

[Ken H]

This is getting confusing. I thought the problem was that Apple itself is currently not able to harvest the data from this i-phone, and that the court ordered them to build a device that would be able to harvest it.

Do I have that correct?

[Talisker]

Apple could just make a “corporate edition” OS with a backdoor.

I predict this will be the solution. Private phones won’t have it.

Incrementalism, I believe it’s called.

[ifinnegan]

I have a feeling that if it were the other way around, that this was a case of people murdering a bunch of Muslims, or it it were anti-homosexual murders, that Cook would have no objection.

[precisionshootist]

Well that's it then, Apple won't cooperate. I guess the investigation is over, there's no way to catch any more terrorists. Without access to the contents of this iphone there is simply no way to find out anything about this crime. /s

I find it odd that we have judges that feel the courts have the power to order Apple to CREATE a backdoor to get into someone elses property but would never consider an order to search and monitor the mosques where all these subhumans foment their evil.

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[McGruff]

Wow. This is HUGE. Apple defending terrorists.

[CurlyDave]

IF Apple were to have to do this, who would pay for it?

If ti takes an army of 1000 programmers working for several years to do this, that is going to be expensive. Plus, taking this people away from their usual jobs is going to hurt Apple.

Maybe the issue is that enough money has not yet been offered...

[Swordmaker]

Apple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Before. . . since 2008. Of course, these were earlier model iPhones and the cases were different, and Apple did have the means to do what was asked when these earlier cases were presented. They were also cases where an active prosecution was pending, not a fishing expedition over a dead Terrorist's iPhone where the case is essentially dead. -- PING!

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[dennisw]

Very interesting. It seems the only reason Apple will not unlock this phone is it hurts their profits. Due to their current big selling point of their products having no backdoor for the Federales. BUT WAIT! Now it seems they do indeed have backdoors (or other unlocks) that only Apple can open and has opened in the past for law enforcement. Apple is far from helpless and has been lying about being unable to get past its own encryption. I am shocked that such an effete gang of California homos would be lying. Shocked!

[dennisw]

Sure seems this current case will wind through the courts with Apple being ordered to unlock the phone

[Read Write Repeat]

Simple solution: dig up the corpse and use Touch ID. :P

[taildragger]

I don’t see a problem here. If the password is a series of numbers in sequence to unlock the screen, then why aren’t they looking at finger-prints or wear patterns ( even at a micron level ) to ascertain what the combo might be. Then compare what the numbers are to numbers in these two despots lives like birthdays, or something that might have significance. No I don’t work for the Rand Corp., but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

[StAnDeliver]

Just hilarious. Next, maybe Cook will start acting like he can’t hear...