Posted on 02/19/2016 4:14:33 PM PST by TraditionalMerica
One of the things here I've noticed is that there's a debate going on about this topic. Donald Trump is right and I've said it, but come under fire. See the tweet below:
Boycott all Apple products until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 19, 2016
It would be one thing to talk about doing this to people who are alive. But the Radical Islamic Terrorists who carried out San Bernadino are dead. I don't care about their civil liberties. Keep America safe, which will help make it great again.
What would Rubio’s interns think about a gay serial killer and tracking down that person?
I agree with him, none of Apples secrets need be revealed, all they want is the info on the phone.
haha and he posted it from his IPhone.
Nothing quite like making statements based on ignorance...
It isn’t a matter of Apple refusing to provide the data off the phone. There is no back door to the data for them to provide access to.
The government is demanding that Apple create a new version of their OS so that the government can hack it without it wiping the data they want. So Apple is supposed to spend major time and money killing the security features they built into the OS so the government can then hack it. And Trump thinks that’s just fine and dandy...
Just more shooting from the hip hoping it hits something...
“All they want is the info off the phone”
There is no back door to the data. Apple can’t unlock the data.
And you think it is Apple’s duty to develop major new code so the government can hack it? Where does that duty end???
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I’m confident that there are at least two back doors existing on that phone:
Apple’s
The cell service’s
.
Here’s another Apple thread with over 200 comments if anyone is interested in reading.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3399297/posts
We’ve been giving up too many rights to an overreaching government. Shades of the book “1984”. No privacy, no dignity, no freedom because of these little steps by government. Soon, no cash, all transactions monitored. Checkpoints everywhere, with travel restricted. We’ll be asked to turn in neighbors and relatives who aren’t in lockstep with government restrictions. Many don’t see the writing on the wall, if Apple is forced to cave in. Apple should stand firm against government overreach.
Apple needs to step to the plate and do the right thing. These terrorists were connected. Give the government access to the info on this one phone.
Last I heard, Apple said it was a simple task.
The FBI is using that one phone to force Apple to write code that will enable the government to break into any phone.
What will happen to that code?
It will end up in the hands of people who have no business with it.
Think of what is at risk.
The government wants to end cash transactions, so any one who gets the code will be able to read anyone and everyone’s bank records and transaction.
Warren Buffet's stock transactions.
Your business conversations, which would lead to theft of trade secrets, patent and other secrets, business prospects (though your address book).
Hillary's secret sex life, .......
It would ruin the country.
The only correct solution is for the FBI to give the phone to Apple and let them devise a way to copy the contents. That would leave full control in Apple's control and no innocent person would have his life stolen.
And besides, there is the 4Th Amendment, and regardless of what the safety at any cost people think, without the 4Th Amendment all of our lives would become a living hell.
I am a Trump supporter, and this is the first time I have been disappointed in one of his positions.
I am hoping that he doesn’t understand the problems involved with destroying all of our privacy by making our phones hackable by the gov or any other bad guys that want to check our online financials, personal emails, web sites visited, photos, etc.
I have nothing on mine that would cause any problems, but I can imagine the possibility that others do, and could be blackmailed. Or, if someone wanted to destroy another person, incriminating or damaging info could be placed on the phone.
Anyone remember what happened to Sheryl Atkinson?
I understand that Apple has a “key†that can open the phone. I agree that Apple must open this one phone. If Apple opens this phone for them and keeps the key from them, then they should. Under no circumstances should apple give the key to any law enforcement organization including the CIA and the FBI. Our personal security must be protect from the Government since they have abused us in the past and can never be used again unless by Court order and on a specific phone. The key must be in apple hand forever and never surrendered.
Donald Who? This is my version of a boycott.
Great, Mr. USA wants us to buy Asian-headquartered cell phone companies. Make South Korea Great Again.
The data is encrypted with only the dead person having the key. The encrypted data has no hidden backdoor so Apple says and I tend to believe them.
The government is trying to force Apple to modify their OS so that 10 failed attempts doesn’t wipe the data and so that the government can have a machine enter a large number of key codes without the OS forcing a wait period between entries so they can do it quickly.
So in short the government is demanding that Apple modify its OS to bypass security features so the government can hack the key.
That isn’t the same thing as Apple simply unlocking the phone - which they say they can’t.
Even if Apple is wrong, I don't trust any federal agency under Obama administration...
Well you are wrong.
Trump is a moron. What they are trying to force Apple to do is to Create a new backdoor into phones, something they do not have. That would hurt everyone’s privacy.
Trump is an idiot.
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