Posted on 02/17/2016 4:20:38 AM PST by John W
LOS ANGELES Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday said a court order demanding the company create a "backdoor" into the cellphone data of the San Bernardino, Calif., attackers was "chilling" and "dangerous."
In a letter to customers, Cook expressed his opposition to the court order.
"The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand," Cook wrote. "Compromising the security of our personal information can ultimately put our personal safety at risk. That is why encryption has become so important to all of us. For many years, we have used encryption to protect our customers' personal data because we believe it's the only way to keep their information safe. We have even put that data out of our own reach, because we believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business."
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saved my fingers on the keyboard
Stank weiner has spoken!!! (Cook)
Perhaps you do not value your privacy. I do.
Perhaps you view terrorists as posing the greatest threat to the American people. I do not. I view domestic tyranny as the greatest threat. The blood-soaked XX Century supports my view,
And I'm curious: What candidate (if any) does someone with the attitude you expressed support?
I'm also a little puzzled that someone who would use the power of government to destroy a legitimate private company would then be comparing Presidents to slave masters.
The world has become a very strange place.
So strange that I am defending Apple, a company whose products I reject.
Right on!
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TSMC is just a chip forge company. They did not engineer the A6 nor the software that is in the iPhone 5C in question. Apple did.
I think the U.S. govt has already cracked the iPhone or has had backdoors into it.
This may be a false story to fool terrorists into using an “uncrackable” phone. I hope they do.
Look how many existing backdoors are found in our computers and other data devices every week.
I’m sure the iPhone and every android and Windows phone already have government backdoors built into them.
True, but there are too many checks and balances in the engineering to be able to do that and not get caught doing it.
Being a very "progressive" organization, I would suspect that Apple already does help the government when it comes to the REAL terrorists (meaning Tea Party types, Republicans, etc.).
The FBI didn't even care about the terrorists' apartment, as evidenced by the press rummaging though it with evidence laying all over the place. I doubt the government wants to see what's in the phone.
I suspect that in return for Apple's continued cooperation with the Feds, they're playing out this little drama in such a public way to allow Apple to get the free publicity.
Clearly, this is a situation where we need some common sense conservatism - Apple needs to unlock the phone.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-- Ben Franklin
Apologies for not being more clear.
I want the terrorist’s phone data, the Fraud does not, and has executed this huge smokescreen to protect his terrorist buddies and convinced the judge to MAKE it about everyone, instead of one phone, still to protect his terrorist buddies.
I’ll bet Tim Cook wants to marry the kid who stole all the NSA information then fled the country..
Apple was the first to use 256 bit AES encryption on their iOS devices. Why do you think the FBI and the NSA and the Federal government is powerless to get at the data on this iPhone? Apple has NOT included a backdoor opener and the data on the iPhone IS encrypted. All Apple has been ordered to do at this point is defeat the iPhone 5C's automatic data erasure protection after 10 attempts at brute force guessing the pass code to unlock the device fail.
Here is what troubles me— that the San Bernardino ISIS lovers are both guilty as charged and quite dead, with the keys in reach, for tracking ISIS influence and saving American innocents.
Why would they not want to help in this already proven case? Their own family could be next. Is that what it takes to move them?
Also, could the “backdoor key” be controlled by Apple, and not passed around all over the government, where Apple can act in cooperation with the government, but also delay until the indisputable evidence is before them?
I get that they do not want a privileged goose chase authority laid in the hands of the government.
You provide a backdoor into one iPhone, it will not remain a backdoor into one iPhone. It will be a backdoor into ALL iPhones. The security of the iOS ecosystem is dependent on that. There are over 1 BILLION iOS devices in the wild, protecting the security of credit and debit card data of everyone who owns one. Do you think that if the crooks of the world, knowing that there is now a backdoor into the iPhone operating system, would stop at nothing to find that new backdoor? It WOULD be found. Would the NSA just use the backdoor for only this case? NO WAY!
Don’t kid yourself the Government will get any back door key from Apple or anyone else if this goes forward.
If they want to know who these people called they can look at cell phone records. I see this as another reach for total police state control.
Don’t kid yourself the Government will get any back door key from Apple or anyone else if this goes forward.
If they want to know who these people called they can look at cell phone records. I see this as another reach for total police state control.
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