I don’t care if they waterboard Tim Cook - unlock the damn phone!
Fool. If they create a key that would unlock that phone the same key will unlock yours. Good luck, fool.
Apple cannot unlock the phone. That was one of the biggest features that it offered to customers when it came out with IOS 8. This was partly due to our wonderfully benevolent government using the NSA to spy on millions of American citizens. This article is one of the best written so far that I have seen on this issue.
The feds screwed up royally by letting those two terrorists into this country knowing that they had ties to other terrorists. They were granted US citizenship. They had traveled to Yemen. They both worked for a local government which means they went through a background check and fingerprinting, and were still hired. The feds already have the telephone numbers from Verizon for the phone in question. What other information could be so vital to national security that the feds need? The feds are usurping a FISO court and issuing an unprecedented order to compel a company to create something, citing a two century old law. Apple is absolutely right in its stance.
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
Tim Cook can run for office and then introduce legislation about this and get it passed but until he does then unlock the phone. The only ones benefiting now are the terrorists.
I don’t care if they waterboard Tim Cook - unlock the damn phone!
Please: forget for a moment that Cook is a liberal gay man.
Put that aside.
Also understand you cannot unlock one of these phones in isolation. To do so, you have to give the keys to the kingdom - all Apple phones.
Is that still ok to you?
What will the black box building in Utah do with that?
Will it stop there or will T-Mobil, AT&T, Verizon have to give up their Droid password entry mechanisms/heuristics/algorithms?
Is it still ok?