[Swordmaker]

Secret Memo Details U.S.'s Broader Strategy to Crack Phones -- Bloomberg -- PING!

Apple v FBI
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[Swordmaker]

I borrowed this from Mac Daily New's take on the Bloomberg Article: "The government is not your friend.

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will." --Ronald Reagan

[DesertRhino]

Creepy article. One question. Most people back up the iphones to icloud. I get the phone passcode on the handset, but how secure is the data on the cloud? How does that work?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

If the FBI, Dept. of Justice (and the White House, aka the Red House), wanted to get serious with Apple over their refusal to help uncode an Islamic mass murderer’s cell phone, then let them try this.

Under the 1916/1917 US Code section on Treason and Sedition (I don’t have it in front of me), there is a section regarding “aiding and abetting an enemy” in a time of war or peace.

I would love to see Apple’s head traitor, Tim Scott, perp-walked into a local city jail (he’d get a lot of boyfriends real fast).

Also, since Al Qaeda and ISIS have both declared war against the US, even if we don’t officially (by vote of Congress), declare war against the, a “state of war” between them and us exists in reality (and this was recognized to some degree in Vietnam War court cases up to both District and I believe, Circuit Court levels.

The US Government could “seize” the whole Apple operation for impeding the “war effort”. It was done during WW2 when labor strikes got out of hand or the management of a company failed to produce according to the terms of their war contracts with the govt.

While the Supreme Court shot down Truman’s attempt to seize the steel industries during the Korean War, Korea was not a “declared war”, only a UN ‘police action’.

Today, “declared wars” are not going to happen so some courts will recognize a “de facto state of war to exist” where an enemy has declared it and we are fighting a counter-war (not a damned police/FBI) action against them.

It is time that our businesses pick a side, ours or the enemies (if only by omission or commission), and pay the penalty for hurting our ability to defend ourselves and protect our troops and citizens from open warfare or terrorism.

In Apple’s case and their sleazy defense of “defending the rights to privacy of their customers”, screw Apple. This has nothing to do with the “rights of the customers” and Apple knows it, or is Tim Scott really that stupid? I doubt it. He’s a doublecrossing traitor and should pay the price for his “aiding and abetting our enemies”.

I prefer a firing squad for treason and “aiding and abetting”, but then again, I’m an old fashioned America patriot.

[philman_36]

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[tbw2]

They can’t stop a million illegals crossing the border a year or profile Muslims cheerleading ISIS online, but being able to read any electronic medium at any time will make us safer?

[Vinnie]

All this controversy concerning iPhones and encryption.
What about Android phones? Are they encrypted/ breakable?

[mad_as_he$$]

Humm and a few days later San Bernardino happens along with the fall out.

[Grampa Dave]

Apple vs. FBI: 9 Updates in the Fight Over a Killer’s Locked iPhone
MEDIA | By Joan E. Solsman on February 22, 2016 @ 5:26 pm

http://www.thewrap.com/apple-vs-fbi-9-updates-fight-locked-iphone/

[Grampa Dave]

Microsoft founder Gates backs FBI in encryption fight with Apple

Published February 23, 2016 FoxNews.com
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The clash between Apple and FBI heats up

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has broken with other Silicon Valley giants by backing the FBI in its battle with Apple over hacking into a locked iPhone as part of the investigation into last December’s San Bernardino terror attack.

In an interview with the Financial Times published Tuesday, Gates said a court order requiring Apple to help the FBI access a work phone belonging to gunman Syed Farook was “ a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case.”

Gates went on to compare the FBI request to accessing bank and telephone records. However, he added that the government must be subject to rules about when it can access such information.

I hope that we have that debate so that the safeguards are built and so people do not opt, and this will be country by country. [to say] it is better that the government does not have access to any information. Gates said.

The San Bernardino County-issued iPhone 5C was used by Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people at an office holiday party in December before they died in a gun battle with police. The government said they had been at least partly inspired by ISIS.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/02/23/microsoft-founder-gates-backs-fbi-in-encryption-fight-with-apple.html