Posted on 02/19/2016 4:55:27 AM PST by dayglored
... so Apple doesn't need to place a back door on its product
Using an obscure law, written in 1789 — the All Writs Act — the US government has ordered Apple to place a back door into its iOS software so the FBI can decrypt information on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
It has finally come to this. After years of arguments by virtually every industry specialist that back doors will be a bigger boon to hackers and to our nation's enemies than publishing our nuclear codes and giving the keys to all of our military weapons to the Russians and the Chinese, our government has chosen, once again, not to listen to the minds that have created the glue that holds this world together.
This is a black day and the beginning of the end of the US as a world power. The government has ordered a disarmament of our already ancient cybersecurity and cyberdefense systems, and it is asking us to take a walk into that near horizon where cyberwar is unquestionably waiting, with nothing more than harsh words as a weapon and the hope that our enemies will take pity at our unarmed condition and treat us fairly.
Any student of world history will tell you that this is a dream. Would Hitler have stopped invading Poland if the Polish people had sweetly asked him not to do so? Those who think yes should stand strongly by Hillary Clinton’s side, whose cybersecurity platform includes negotiating with the Chinese so they will no longer launch cyberattacks against us.
...if the government succeeds in getting this back door, it will eventually get a back door into all encryption, and our world, as we know it, is over.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Getting your name to move to the top of a google search doesn't mean you're a genius.
Umm, no I don’t. I thinks they are doing the NSA’s bidding to support the surveillance industrial machine. How long ago was the San Bernadino terror attack and they are just now looking at the brother in-law and maybe a third terrorist? Reports of a third terrorist were out from the jump. What about the trashing of the apartment? why wasn’t that locked down? Haven’t they done enough? Don’t make me laugh.
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You don’t know what has been done, and the FBI is never known for showing their hand.
Even the top brass of the FBI is subject to Obama’s thumb, and has to work covertly from his gaze.
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Mac invented every cyber security tool in the box at the beginning of the computer virus threat, and shared his knowledge with everyone else.
He’s a character, but a brilliant one.
You don’t know what has been done, and the FBI is never known for showing their hand.
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