Apple v. FBI commentary from a Prosecutor
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Posted on 02/19/2016 1:36:09 AM PST by Swordmaker
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It isn’t broken. There is nothing to “fix”.
Encryption with a backdoor is not secure.
All this would be prevented by a government agency which would have the best computers attached to the largest data banks recording everyone’s digital communications. This wonder agency could work with friendly nations around the planet to capture everyone’s digital emmisions 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Whether a cell call, an email or a photo with hidden layers this government agency would capture and analysis all this digital information almost in real time. It would cost maybe hundreds of billions but the ability to prevent an attack such as Boston would be worth it. Image knowing the perpetrators before hand. They could be watched, special trained personnel could be at the event watching for the perpetrators. We would all live in safe world. And not even our leaders would think of using such an agency to spy on their rivals, either internationally or domestically to turn this agency into a digit machiavellian tool to crush rivals and push an individual leader’s goals.
Lol. You forgot the /s tag.
FUNSA.... ;^)
BFL
Bookmark.
FBI should hire an outside agency to decipher the phone.
Been watching “Person of Interest” much?
Excuse me I need to go to the store and buy some more tin foil, I appear to be out.
There's a strange car parked down the street from your house. Might want to check on that.
Our president considers pro-lifers and the NRA to be the REAL threat to our security. There is no serious question as to how technology will be used for domestic political purposes. Think about the IRS and the Tea Party.
The 4th Amendment does not say we have a right to “...be secure in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects” as long as the government has access, if needed. If the government wins on this, a precedent will have been set. Our rights will end where this new right of the government begins. I cannot believe how many people are willing to go down this road because in this case, they are after terrorists (who are already dead, BTW). If we lose our rights in this war against terror, the terrorists win. Period.
The endgame for the government is access to every encrypted device, not just this one phone. Think about this. Apple has done what the Federal Government can't—protect sensitive data.
“...Two major breaches last year of U.S. government databases holding personnel records and security-clearance files exposed sensitive information about at least 22.1 million people, including not only federal employees and contractors but their families and friends, U.S. officials said Thursday...”
The Federal Government cannot secure the personal data of their employees, contractors, families and friends. How can they promise our devices will remain secure? They can't, not with a straight face anyway.
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
I'd wear my "Atlas Shrugged is now Nonfiction" shirt to work on casual days, but I work in a government office. Maybe one or two, out of 40, would have any clue, and there's no fun in that.
I feel like John Galt in the train yard.
I figure POI is patterned after that facility.
Isn’t it amazing how 99% of our fellow Americans are completely clueless to the approaching storm....
“Isn’t it amazing how 99% of our fellow Americans are completely clueless to the approaching storm....”
Sadly, many here on Free Republic can’t get past their hatred of Apple to see this crime against Liberty.
Shameful actually. :^(
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