Posted on 02/17/2016 6:13:36 PM PST by AlienCrossfirePlayer
An Open Memo To Lou Dobbs
As CEO, Tim Cooks obligation is to execute the corporate mission. Briefly stated, a corporation must deliver product to customers and return on investment to shareholders. It is not his job to make the nation secure from geo-political terrorism. Your suggestion that Mr. Cook will be culpable when another attack occurs was a stinking cheap shot. Obama has the job of making us secure and is failing us. Today on the sister network Fox News Channel, Obama was heard calling for improved cyber security. Do you see an irony?
By resisting encroachment by the courts, Mr. Cook is executing the corporate mission. Apples customers dont want their data to be made less secure. Apples investors dont want their research dollars to be wasted. In short courts are demanding that Apple degrade its very excellent product. Leave Apple alone. American citizens want their private data to remain secure.
Ben Franklin: He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
Fewer restrictions on arms. Free gun mufflers, legal automatics, legal claymores, etc.
Why should Apple have to pay for the government doing a piss poor job of keeping terrorists out of the country?
Why can’t Apple just unlock this one phone for the FBI?
Right on. Right on.
Awhile back Arizona tried to set as a house/apt renting condition the proper display of documentation PROVING that one is in the country legally —passport, driver’s license, etc.
The left exploded, “Landlords should NEVER be turned into policemen..!” They were apoplectic.
Why should APPLE be turned into the NSA?
I don’t follow.
Build a wall, kick out the illegals and ban foreign mohammedans from entering the country, except on a case-by-case basis.
Definitely. But I do know how you could find out what you said was completely uninformed—search.
There must be a way that a trusted third party could take the device in the presence of appropriate law enforcement, judicial and Apple lawyers, open the phone and then give the critical components back to Apple.
To quote ret LtCol Ralph Peters: Kill them (terrorists); its the only way.
Because they've designed the iPhone so that this is not possible. The FBI is asking them to create an entirely new version of the operating system that could be used to crack *any* iPhone.
Apple doesn’t have the passcode, the phone has it but it is encrypted. It’s not a fancy passcode—usually only 4 digits. Problem is the phone automatically wipes itself after so many failed attempts to enter the passcode—so brute force won’t work. The government is ordering Apple to write a new IOS that will disable the security feature. It can’t write an IOS for just this one phone—it will be able to break all IPhones’ security.
It really is amazing when you think of it—a 4-digit passcode is unbreakable by our government’s best and brightest. (I keep thinking of SpaceBalls where the secret code is 1234, which is the same as the President’s suitcase. I wonder I f they tried 1234 just to see?)
I guess my question is if there is a court order for just this one phone what’s the problem with somebody from Apple opening it up? I mean the phone calls and text messages have already been obtained from the carrier so I guess the FBI is trying to get the contact list off the phone. What else would there be?
I’d be very surprised if Apple successfully defies the All Writs Act written and passed by the Founders of this nation.
But Obama has appointed many Justices and Apple has a lot of money.
That’s sort of what I thought.
I heard an idea today that seems a simple solve that protects everybody. This isn’t verbatim, but here’s the gist:
Give the phone to Apple. Let them decode it in an underwater bunker off some balmy island surrounded by American warships. Give the data to the FBI guy waiting on the beach sipping a mai-tai. Apple can keep the phone and decode key, and sledgehammer it or blow it up or whatever. Everybody’s happy.
Let the government do what they did in wwii and tell all us companies it’s ilegal to sell to muslims.
Dont put the onus on a company that sells most of its stuff to regular americans.
Besides the point is moot. They can get all this info about contacts and numbers from the phone company or nsa. And you know it and so do I.
OK. Thanx. I get it. Yeh
“Cracking this one phone will produce a tool that can crack all iPhones. “
NO.
If you really wanted to, given quite a bit of money and time to back you up, as the gov has, couldn’t the gov acquire a bunch of phones, find a way to safely disassemble the phone in question, use specialized hardware to move the data to another phone, and use brute force password guess?
If the 10th incorrect password causes erasure, that means you could use 9 per device. So, practice getting all data off one phone, so you get that part down. Then you need at most 112 phones to guess the password.
I’m presuming that, since the iPhone is not actually UFO technology, appropriate circuitry could be reverse engineered to accomplish this sort of copy.
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