[Carismar]

So who wins?

[jessduntno]

Follow the money...

[Tench_Coxe]

LA Times.
Which begs the question-why are the Feds so hell bent on getting a backdoor into iPhones? I don't think it has a thing to do with fighting terrorism.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Cook doesn’t seem very patriotic beyond his own definition of patriotic. So what if the FBI screwed up. They probably did their best with the Government brains on hand.

Seeing how Cook is acting, it’s no wonder they tried on their own without asking for Apple’s help. I would imagine Cook is doing this on his own. I would guess that the bulk of Apple Employee’s disagree with him.

Narcissism seems to be the common denominator in the gay community.

[nickcarraway]

Apple will protect dead killers in the U.S., but will offer up live freedom fighters in China.

[corkoman]

I understand the Chinese wanting to spy on all their peeps bcz thats what totalitarians do.

Why should we believe the FBI wants to be any different? Oh, for our safety.

[DesertRhino]

There is no backdoor in the I-phone in China. But even so, what is the argument? That a company trying to operate in a communist country should expect no better treatment here in America?

Stupid argument.

[kingu]

Where there you go.. You want hacked iPhones, move to China. Everyone’s happy.

[Gay State Conservative]

iPHONE..SMARTPHONE OF CHOICE OF WORLDWIE JIHAD

[DesertRhino]

This is such American-wanna-be-facist BS. Ask ANY American company if they are treated exactly the same in foreign countries as they are here in America and if they make accommodations.

For starters, lets start with every company doing business in Saudi Arabia. DO they demand entry for a non muslim employee into Mecca? Hell, the US government itself making this argument through its think tank minions asks military women to wear scarves, not drive in certain areas, dress modestly, etc.

This is the norm for every American company. Go Apple.

[G Larry]

Did you ever see China’s Bill of Rights?

I don’t much care how Apple works in China.

Leave the U.S. Gov’t OUT of my personal communications!

[DoughtyOne]

[Will88]

I’d been wondering about how Apple functioned in China. The Commies have a way of slapping the tech firms around to get the cooperation they want and few have resisted.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I for one don’t mind the govt accessing the data from dead Islamic killers

[jimmygrace]

China is a communist dictatorship. Is that what we want here, or do we want Apple to resist the FBI’s attempt to invade our privacy?

[Scrambler Bob]

iPhone was made in China.

So ... ‘force’ China to get data from San B terrorists’ phone.

They can get into it, right????

[Swordmaker]

LA Times: "Apple is Not Such a Freedom Fighter in China" -- All Old News. China insisted that Chinese Citizen's Data must be hosted on servers inside the borders of China for Apple to be able to sell iOS devices in China. Apple's devices are still encrypted and the data uploaded to those servers are still encrypted with the user's personally chosen passcode. That is no different in China than it is here.

Apps that are critical of the Chinese government are not permitted in the Chinese Apple App Store, and Apps that do not meet the peculiar Chinese moral code, ditto. Cost of doing business in a closed society.

As for the accusation that Apple allows "security audits", it is not what it seems. Last year the with the heavy news about the NSA having the ability to read everyone's email and have access into mobile devices, the Chinese press started spreading rumors that Apple iOS devices had backdoors that allowed the NSA unfettered access to users' data. The Chinese government immediately banned all iOS devices from government purchase and also halted iPhone and iPad sales pending a "security audit" to prove Apple's claim there were no "backdoors" in Apple's products. Apple agreed to allow Chinese security specialists the chance to try to break in to the current iPhones and iPads. Four days later, after the Chinese experts found No backdoors, the sales halt was lifted and Apple products were again allowed in!

This is no where nearly the same as what Microsoft did when they gave the Chinese government the entire source code to Microsoft Windows.

The meme that is being pushed now by these articles that somehow Apple is allowing the Chinese access they do not allow the US government is FALSE! -- PING!

Pinging dayglored, ThunderSleeps, and Shadow Ace for their ping lists.

Apple Security and China
Ping!

The latest Apple/Mac/iOS Pings can be found by searching Keyword "ApplePingList" on FreeRepublic's Search.

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me

[AZLiberty]

why are the Feds so hell bent on getting a backdoor into iPhones?

Because they want us to be just like Communist China.

[Laser_Ray]

Dear Freepers: this is the reality of doing any business at all in a Communist nation.

Until recently I worked for a massive financial company, and you know the training course that everyone laughed at? Not the ‘diversity’ one, not the ‘sexual harassment’ (aka whiny ugly whores complaining to HR) course...the ‘anti-bribery and corruption’ one.

Why?

Because it was openly discussed how ‘payments’ were literally the only way to get anything done not just in a couple third-world countries but in several supposedly civilized European nations.

Apple can resist Uncle Sham’s demands ONLY because they are relatively sure that doing so won’t result in their executives being mass-arrested and the army confiscating all their factories. In China? NOT SO D@MN MUCH.

[central_va]

Suicide nets around FoxConn Chinese facility.