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 ...
The question is open what? If the request was for Apple to open just the one phone and not give any code to the federales, there would be no controversy! What "big-brother" wants is for Apple to open every phone so that Uncle Sam can operate as a peeping-Tom. If Apple gives in, the evil in Pandora's box will never be contained again! Once again the overreach of government is the real boogie-man. The terrorists have become the tool of big-government so that Big-brother can gain ascendancy over the populace. All your secrets are belong to us!
It'll still be fine to get and execute search warrants for TEA party types who insult Obama on Facebook, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Certainly we shouldn't want to have a look at a cellphone used by a mass-murdering terrorist.
I know. What’s your point?
Obama is, gasp, correct on this. I can console myself that he was probably going to lose a lot of Silicon Valley money if he kept dogging Apple about this.
I didn’t address you. I posted to comment #2 stating that the article was BS because Gates had agreed that Apple should open the phone. His reported change was just a few days ago.
I have no problems with getting a warrant to search any phone. But the responsibilty is on the owner to comply, not the millions of other people owning an iPhone.
They want a back door. Period. Once they have that back door they will have a veil of secrecy under which to operate. We know how that works out.
Sorry. Trying to clean up my own mess of hitting post instead of edit and I missed it.
The Democrat Party now runs on Millenial voters and Silicon Valley money. This is not a surprise in the least.
Why didn't all those federal and state agencies do their job?
Obama says this but his administration is out forcefully saying the opposite.
But we can because we know how he operates. :)
That means he will
Well, whatever was in post #1, I likely echo it; that was enough to make me cuss.
Oh, were 0bama’s lips moving when he said what he did?
Then you know it is a lie.
How? The terrorists supposedly destroyed their personal phones, implying THOSE were the ones that had the info associated with the plans.
If a Fourth Amendment warrant can be evaded by just buying an IPhone we’re doomed anyway.
The Bill of Rights shouldn’t be a joke.
“This article is from October 2015.”
Bears repeating.
If it was asking Apple to go into the privacy of its labs and open this one phone and give the data to the government...I would say they need to absolutely do it, and believe Apple would do so under those conditions.
But that is not what was being asked. The FBI wanted software and the tools to be able to do it themselves. This of course would extend beyond the one phone...and so Apple said no.
This, IMHO, should have been worked out with the manufacturer (in this case Apple) before making a public spectacle of it.
In essence, by doing it this way, they have announced to the world that the iPhone is not going to be able to be cracked.
Ahhh...hehehe, but then the OpSec part of me is thinking that maybe they just set a huge Honey Trap for terrorists precisely because they already have the solution worked out to Apple’s satisfaction.
If that is the case (and we will not know it) then my hat’s off to them,.
Don’t even own a cell phone. Only because I have no intention of running around the world with a phone stuck in my ear. I have a land line with an answering machine.
Anyone of us could end up on a watch list because we believe in the principles upon which this nation was founded and actually believe the Bill of Rights limits the reach of the government.
How hard would it be to get a search warrant on our phones because we strongly support the 2nd Amendment or any other issue? If the government gets a back door, we will never know that our personal information has become an open book.
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