Posted on 02/25/2016 9:08:22 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
CUPERTINO, Calif. - The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices, concluding that it is not possible to give American law enforcement and intelligence agencies access to that information without also creating an opening that China, Russia, cybercriminals and terrorists could exploit. With its decision, which angered the F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies, the administration essentially agreed with Apple, Google, Microsoft and a group of the nation's top cryptographers and computer scientists that millions of Americans would be vulnerable to hacking if technology firms and smartphone manufacturers were required to provide the government with "back doors," or access to their source code and encryption keys.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
BS....Bill Gates said Apple should open it.
What is on the killer’s phone that is not available from provider’s phone records (numbers, time duration), GPS tracking records (location over time), emails (archiving) from internet providers???? NSA is supposed track terrorists!?!
All that can be acquired without having the physical phone.
It all looks like another version of going after the gun ban after random killing.
What is left of citizen’s privacy ???
You already pay for your phone that gives the almighty government free access to your private activity.
Yeah, freedom for terrorists, spying on citizens!
Crap-I hit post before I finished my comment
The money quote is further down...
“...White House officials said they would continue trying to persuade technology companies to help them in investigations, but they did not specify how...”
The ‘how’ is clear. Obama has chosen to bypass legislation, taking it straight to the courts. He is a community organizer and this is what they do to get what they want.
By leaving this to the courts, his hands are clean. No one can accuse him of bypassing privacy privacy rights.
See post 5.
The significance I put to this is not that Obama agrees with Cook or me. It is that he has chosen this to be settled in the courts as opposed to legislation. The San Bernadino case is the perfect venue for the government to get around legislation.
Exactly the point I was going to make. But I hit post instead of edit.
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Screw Obama.
I don’t care if they have to waterboard Tim Cook, Apple has to unlock that g-damned phone! American lives may be at stake.
The NSA, for all their billions in funding for that agency, demonstrates themselves to be essentially valueless.
“creating an opening that China, Russia, cybercriminals and terrorists could exploit.”
Forgot one. The US establishment.
Actually, Gates said in a subsequent interview that he was shocked at how his comments had been misinterpreted. He did NOT mean to imply that Apple should comply.
No, he didn’t, he even went on to another show to discuss the fact that he was mis-quoted by whomever stated that, or that he was misunderstood by those reporting it.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11098592/bill-gates-fbi-apple-comments
I asked the mods to delete my comment after the article. Comment incomplete and conveys the opposite point of what I was going to make.
Political alliances determining who obeys the law and who does not? Hmmmm.....
As I said before, if we are dependent upon an iPhone to stop a terrorist attack we are already doomed.
This article is from October 2015.
Like he is REALLY worried that a commie friend would get the info. More likely get HIS info. I hope all the scum that voted for the Scum In Chief are proud of themselves for what they put into the President’s chair, so he could put his nasty feet on the desk. I had always thought LBJ, Nixon and Carter were the worse to hold the office. I now have a new one that over does all those three added together. A non-citizen elected to the office. If a republican had run for office, using his excuses and back ground, the MSM and dimocommies would have had a cow.
“American lives may be at stake.”
You are so right- and naturally if they need to do house-to-house searches and look at everyone’s library records and download histories and browser histories and track your car’s travels and make networks of all your contacts and edit newspaper articles and block certain posts on social media and take people in for interrogation and demand copies of everything you photograph and interview your neighbors to determine your loyalty, it’s all worth it!
For the children.
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