No, Apple Has Not Unlocked 70 iPhones For Law Enforcement

TechCrunch ^ | Matthew Panzarino

[r_barton]

There is a really good discussion about the FBI request to Apple on Twit.tv with Leo LaPorte, “The Tech Guy” and Steve Gibson from “Security Now” (he joins the discussion in the middle of the show).

It is on the Twit.TV show “This Week in Google”. You can watch it by streaming the video, or downloading the video or audio (for free) at this URL.

https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/340?autostart=false

[morphing libertarian]

So we keep every foreign terrorist out and we don’t need searches. I see

[zeugma]

Read the rest at the link. Working in tech, I see this all the time. The mainstream media hardly ever understands what is being said - and usually reports it incorrectly.

Let's think about that for a while. Now, you know how badly the press is reporting on these issues because you have a lot of familiarity with it. What about those subjects that you don't have a great deal of familiarity with? Why would one believe the press would do any better in these other areas?

Something I've noticed about folk I've dealt with over my life is that just about everyone has at least one subject that they are fairly knowledgeable about.. It doesn't seem to matter how ignorant they may be about the vast majority of topics, but there is pretty much always something they know pretty well.

I've noticed that when you ask people  how accurately the press portrays this subject, the answer is almost uniformly negative. The press is almost always wrong, or at least horribly misleading.

For some folk, when I talk to them about this, you can almost see the light bulb over their heads as they begin to comprehend the implications...

[DBG8489]

I agree with what you said regarding law enforcement and warrants.

However, a warrant gives the government nothing more than the authority to search a particular place for a particular thing.

It does *not* say that they may force a third party has to provide them the *means* to search that place - even if the third party built it.

[DBG8489]

Trust me - I get it.

I’ve worn many hats in my life and had ample opportunity to see the press get it wrong about MANY of the things I was involved in.

Which is why I believe, and tell my kids to believe, nothing they read anywhere. Do your own research and hope you land in the proximity of the truth.