Why Apple is right to resist the FBI
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Posted on 03/13/2016 1:21:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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this is all subterfuge. apple already helped the fbi.
Lots of words here to obfuscate a simple fact - Apple is ignoring a court order which they will find out is never a good idea. Give LE what they need. There is no doubt whatsoever a crime has been committed, get real.
Sorry, the government has destroyed any trust that the people had left in it.
It seems to me that in both cases that even if the FBI had the legal authority to do so, it would have to pay for the technology to be developed and also pay for the damage to the company's commercial reputation incumbent upon defeating its own technology, i.e., several billion dollars in Apple's case.
February 2017: President Hillary stores encryption key on home-brew White House email server...
Hill-arity ensues...
Fortunately Apple gets to fight this rather than some company with fewer resources. Apple has smarter lawyers than the government and more money.
Not so simple.
Apple is being ordered to turn over something that does not exist!
Wrong, there is a lawful warrant that Apple does not want to obey. You try that sometime and see what happens.
The are obviously not ignoring it, they are fighting it. A court order with the same tech. issue and the exact same legal argument (AWA) was just overturned in another case.
The author quickly conflates Judicial courts with Executive agencies...
It’s very silly.
Nope, there is no applicable warrant, hence the need for a court order.
Stay strong, Apple.
That’s an important point whichever side one is on.
The issue will receive full and competent review in the courts- which is the Branch most affected.
After that the congress can and must write laws on encryption.
Put Cook in jail and we will see how long it takes to drill. You are siding with criminals, why?
For my money, this is THE most important issue of this eletion cycle and the candidates are mostly ignoring it. The right of citizens to use stong data encryption is the 2nd amemdment issue for the 21st. century. Right now we have access to locks that the government can't open. It should stay that way.
Do you support the 2nd amendment? If so, why?
This seems a case of violating the Fourth Amendment that guarantees Americans will be free of unreasonable searches and seizure. The solution opens all owners of the phone to a search and that would be unreasonable.
The court order made sense in the days of Perry Mason when law enforcement was given permission to enter a particular residence and open a particular safe. In this case the software solution is equivalent to having the keys to open every house and safe in the country. That result is unacceptable to me even if I trusted the NSA, IRS, HLS, CIA, etc.
Strong encryption is coming to everyone- and there’s a need for it.
But I don’t think you’d like living in a world of ineffective courts that can’t compel evidence.
When everyone takes the law into their own hands justice is whatever the strongest say.
There are several ways to keep encryption from destroying the Fourth Amendment.
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