[jsanders2001]

Sounds like someone is throwing a temper tantrum because Apple won’t give them unfettered access to customer’s data.

[Paladin2]

The DOJ should use 0bama’s back door.

[kiryandil]

The DOJ needs to shut its felonious piehole.

[roadcat]

Drip, drip, drip... bit by bit we lose our freedom and constitutional rights as the bureaucrats in government demand to know every aspect of our lives. How far our nation has fallen since the beginning. We are becoming serfs under an evil empire that does not respect our privacy.

[UCANSEE2]

Remember back when our government kept it quiet that they were spying on everyone ?

[NetAddicted]

Can’t believe Obama-nation’s admin is going after another homosexual.

[dayglored]

Hey Swordmaker,

Rehash of an earlier thread topic, figured you might want to ping your list anyway.

-- Dayglored

[mikey_hates_everything]

That demand is as absurd as trying to compel Phil Zimmermann to decrypt someone’s PGP encrypted data.

[ctdonath2]

“we’ve used these orders before to force Apple to unlock phones. Why should this one be any different?”

Because forcing people to do things against their will and rights motivates them to find a solution. In this case, make it impossible to comply.

[The Antiyuppie]

More reasons for:

1. Any purchasers outside of the US (never mind inside of the US) would be out of their minds to buy US-made equipment.

2. If any high-tech companies are still actually legally headquartered in the US and/or do development here, they should leave, immediately, for Europe or Asia.

Wasn’t it not too long ago when we were accusing the Chinese of putting in “secret functionality” in chips and code (which I don’t believe has ever been proven)? Some nerve.

[Secret Agent Man]

All of fedgov - ALL OF IT - needs complete dismantling and restructuring on a much much smaller and constitutionally-limited foundation.

Would help also to bar most of the current employees from ever holding positions in the rebuilt one, as most have develped bad habits we do not want resurfacing again.

[cincinnati65]

So XYZ Safe and Vault should give the government the combination to every safe they manufacture because XYZ Safe and Vault holds the patent on their combination lock????

I don't think so.

[Vendome]

So you rent a house and therefore have no rights under the Constitution?

[trebb]

The filing also challenges Apple's assertions about the burdensomeness of the request. The government says Apple makes $100 million per day in profit. How can the unlocking of one phone -- no matter how many man hours might go towards testimony and cross-examination -- even begin to make a dent in this pile of money?

DOJ obviously missing the Constitutional point - expecting free stuff from a company in order to do their dirty business.

Apple ought to tell them that since a day's wage came up, perhaps a bill for $100 million per device unlocked should be considered....

[Swordmaker]

Another article on the DOJ arguing that Apple should be forced to unlock iOS devices, claiming that the reason is that Apple owns the operating system, not the customer, who only licenses it. While that is true, that's akin to saying because the Leasing owns the your leased Car, that company should have the power to open your trunk and let the cops search it, and then open the locked briefcase they find in the trunk, merely because they are the owners of the vehicle lease. Apple may own the operating system, they do not own the data that is on the iOS device, or the iPhone on which it exists. — PING!

Ping to dayglored, Shadow Ace, and ThunderSleeps for their lists also, as this issue spills over into all devices.

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[AFreeBird]

iOS is apple’s. The hardware is mine, and the data it contains is most definitely mine.

[Delta 21]

If Apple owns it, its theirs. The government has no right to it.