I will never buy anything Apple!!!
Everyone's IPhone has now been compromised.
Hey, I could be wrong.
5.56mm
Good and bad news...
Good: because now we can eventually find some helpful information on that terrorist’s iPhone.
BAD:
But unfortunately what a Pyrrhic Victory*, what a very very very high price to pay !
Because now it means that the US Federal system has yet another way to invade our private lives.
You might remember that our founding fathers put forward some amendments right? One of them : the right to own a weapon to defend your family against any foreign AND domestic threats ? I hope you are still supporting that one, or?
We also inherited from our founding fathers the right to live free and the right to have privacy... But I see many here dont support that idea any more. Are some of you becoming socialists?
Letting the Big Federal Government take away your last liberties is not a good thing, because one day that Government could be hijacked by ill-minded people.
I hope you realize that when hackers from the islamic state sooner or later will manage to get their hands on that iPhone-unblocking-code from the FBI computers, then ALL our iPhones will be managed by the islamists!
Without knowingly understanding it yet, we have just given the terrorists a future possibility that could jeopardize our every day lives... via our own iPhones !
God Grace, I hope some of you wake up here...
Texasman
I don’t understand why Apple wouldn’t break into this phone without telling the government how they did it.
I'm just saying.
Several password suggestions: “iluvboysngoats”, “foreverhate”, “72virgingoats” or “Vote4O”. Who knows?
My guess is that the FBI originally had access, changed the I.D. and password and lost them. Then all the nonsense to force Apple to help. And now, after going through tons of paper waste from the office, the FBI found the scrap of paper where they scribbled the I.D. and password. Bunch of keystone cops.
Somebody called their friend in the NSA, who cracked the phone in 5 minutes.
This was never about terrorists or getting help hacking a phone. This is about the government being able to grab any person or company and saying, “You work for us now.” Like hell. I’m not real big on Apple or their boss (current or former) but they were spot-on with this.
Complying with this court order means that Apple would’ve been avalanched with them and it would’ve set precedence that the govt. is free to grab any individual or company and get free use of their manpower and resources. I just cannot believe the number of FR people who think it’s OK for the government to Shanghai anybody they want into an indentured servant.
Edward Snowden said all along the FBI could get into that phone anytime they wanted to. He said they just wanted a court to rule in their favor so they could use it in the future.
If (and I stress IF) the process is dependent upon having physical possession of the phone, this is a big win for our privacy rights.
IMHO, a reasonable search and seizure involves presenting the owner with an encrypted device and taking possession of the device. If the owner does not cooperate with authorities they are free to have at it.
An unreasonable search and seizure would be through a 'backdoor' or any other process in which any/all of our devices can be accessed and searched without our knowledge.
The burden will forever have shifted from the government to citizens if a process in which notification after the fact becomes the norm.
If the guy who owned the iPhone was a Serial Killer who murdered 14 Gay People, Apple would have paid the Government to let them unlock the Phone.
All this end of Privacy Armageddon stuff would never have been mentioned.