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.
If Apple is forced to build a backdoor, people will switch to Samsung.
South Korea wins.
I don’t think so. I think they will win. They will have far better lawyers. They will cite so much precedent it will be impossible for the govt to rule against itself.
The constitution does not say government has the right to everyone’s private communications.
So if they don’t, how does America win? iPhones are made in CHY-NAH.
I thought Tim Cook liked back doors.
Why do you say that? What would prevent Apple from telling the government to back off, or Apple will move all it's operations out of the country? The government would blink. Huge companies that operate world-wide, can relocate anywhere. How many companies and jobs have to leave the U.S.A. before we realize that government is the problem behind loss of jobs?
So, I’ve heard two different stories: 1) the Feds just want some help cracking this particular phone and 2) the Feds want a generic back-door to Apple phones. Which is it?
I am no tech genius but what’s wrong with a court order to give the FBI the password to this one phone? Why are we talking backdoors here.
You are right about that.
FBi — iLIKE that.
If conservatives don’t rally around Tim Cook & Apple on this issue, then we’re all going to suffer from it.
Forked Tongue.
They say (1) and want (2).
Cracking this one phone will produce a tool that can crack all iPhones. You don’t think the gov’t will use the new tool they have forced Apple to,provide them?
I believe this was covered in the Constitution...
This is going to be a tricky precident. Do they satisfy the people wanting possible answers to the earlier terrorist attack, to get more info, which opens the back door... Or do they say no, and not do it , and be blamed in the public eye for not helping. Either way, not good for Apple and not good for iPhone.
If it’s done, not good for at all, big government win.
If it’s not done, so much bad press for Apple
It’s a no win situation. Just my simple opinion.
Apple has cooperated some 70 times in the past. That is precedent.
Their excuse this time is we changed the software is not going to work and hasn’t so far. The judge I think will either jail or charge massive fines.
WW2 and a company that sells apples are supplying the Nazis.
How long do you think FDR and the public would put up with that?
Today you have Twitter and Facebook who helped the muslim brotherhood terrorists in Egypt. If it wasn’t for the traitors in the democrat party it would not have happened. (of course I think congress would have looked the other way if they got some bribe money)
Throw the lot of them in jail then target the board of directors and the biggest owners of stock. Cooperate or lose everything. The next attack may be prevented. Lives are at stack.
Well since you have nothing in the way of information or any theory to offer I have to put you in the dumber than me column. :-)
In an unrigged game, yes, Apple would probably win.
Apparently the FBI is asking apple to add software into this apple phone to change the instruction that exists that if 10 password tries occur, everything on the phone will be deleted.
This is such a tough question. I want our liberty, but these terrorists deserve to lose theirs. Their acts have led to their homes, cars, and property being searched. How to do so without compelling something that takes away freedom from innocents?
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