It is a minor change if you know where the piece of code needing to be changed is located. (Which the designers do.)
Do you seriously expect someone other than an Apple software engineer to know where to find a particular nested loop in a very large program?
If you are going to be unreasonable, why should I take you seriously?
We outlawed slavery.
This isn't slavery. You mock and demean the evil that is slavery by saying 15 minutes of an engineer's time is equivalent to it.
You are arguing like a child.
How many Freepers have told you how many dozen times that the code you are referring to is burned into SILICON? It is not designed to be replaced by a mere software update and in fact cannot even be found by any software out side of the Encryption Engine Processor they exist inside. So, DignenesLamp, exactly how do you use a 'software update' to modify a piece of code etched in silicon? We really want to know. You keep ignoring this fact you've been repeatedly told, and had it explained to you how it works, yet WHY do you continue to ignore facts?
This isn't slavery. You mock and demean the evil that is slavery by saying 15 minutes of an engineer's time is equivalent to it.
You are arguing like a child.
You make up delusional "facturds" and require Kingu and everyone to accept your version of reality as if they were true because you proclaim them to be true. It doesn't work that way, DL.
We are not going to accept your claim that it would only take "15 minutes" of some mythical "engineer's time," because YOU created that from a "facturd" you pulled out of your rear end and thought it smelled great when you sniffed it. To us, it smells just like what it is, BS.
Arguing using legitimate logical analogies is arguing like an adult. Claiming stuff you made up is true is arguing like a child.
Actually, the constitution is rather explicit in this: Slavery is not permitted without conviction first. Even if it is in your exaggerated claim of 15 minutes of work.
Let the feds present their case how Apple is a co-conspirator to terrorism for making a secure device which they sold to a third party who then issued it to the Muslim husband of a Pakistani terrorist. The filing should make for some fascinating reading.