Now it is TWELVE MORE!
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Posted on 02/23/2016 11:34:59 AM PST by Swordmaker
The Justice Department is pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist's locked phone, according to people familiar with the matter.
The other phones are at issue in cases where prosecutors have sought, as in the San Bernardino, Calif. terror case, to use an 18th-century law called the All Writs Act to compel the company to help them bypass the passcode security feature of phones that may hold evidence, these people said.
Privacy advocates are likely to seize on the cases' existence as proof the government aims to go far beyond what prosecutors have called the limited scope of the current public court fight over a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Law enforcement leaders, however, may cite the existence of the other cases as evidence that the encryption of personal devices has become a serious problem for criminal investigators in a variety of cases and settings.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasdaq.com ...
Annnnnd there it is. Tim Cook was right.
Anything THIS Justice Department seeks to do, I’m opposed to....I do not trust Satan....
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I guess Lincoln DIDN’T free the slaves after all!
I am with your guy on this one. Apple needs to fight tooth and nail up to SCOTUS if need be.
The line forms on the LEFT!
So...the San Bern shooters were captured in bona-fides VIDEO yet the prosecutions case is not strong enough to obtain a verdict?
Whoot Da Fook?
In five years the world will be awash in encryption the FBI can’t break, provided by parties beyond the reach of the US Government.
This case is pointless.
I'm not sure who they are prosecuting, since they generally don't try to prosecute dead people.
Surprise, surprise.
Broken clock.
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Right about what? That in criminal cases with search warrants, Apple would be instructed to open phones?
Not much of a prediction that.
Forming on the LEFT is a fairly appropriate way to put it. People who don't believe in the rule of law are generally leftists.
And, it’s not really an “Apple” issue in the bigger picture...applies to any OS or phone provider.
not likely
4th amendment
plus
13th amendment
plus 5th and 14th amendments
and Apple has the resources (and business purpose) to refuse
Good point.
I wonder how ordering Apple to break the encryption on this phone is any different than ordering a locksmith to crack a 3rd party's safe. I mean forcing someone at gunpoint to use his skills, knowledge, and time to do the bidding of others sounds a lot like slavery to me.
Obama is behind this. Spy on all the Democrat enemies; tape them illegally, plant false information on their devices, steal their money from bank accounts, check their health accounts - on and on. This has to be stopped.
Today - Oh, did we say just one phone? We meant about 12.
Tomorrow - Oh did we say about 12 phones? We meant about 12 million phones.
I suppose it depends on if the state really doesn’t have a way to do it. If they really did, and Apple refuses to help, it seems to me this would be a good way to convince bad guys to trust using these phones more. If they really didn’t, and they win this and somehow force Apple to help, seems like it becomes less useful as an intelligence/law enforcement tool as the bad dudes would just use their phones less frequently, knowing for sure that they can be broken.
Freegards
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