I admire your ability to put up with the lies and stupidity of trolls.
More substantive, per your regard for our constitution I’d like to point out the debilitation of the Fifth Amendment, too, inherent in Apple’s business plan.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/10/08/philadelphia-police-sergeant-jailed-for-hiding-computer-files-from-feds/
“...Rawls remains jailed at a federal detention center in Philadelphia. His lawyer didn’t immediately return a message Wednesday.
Investigators say the 17-year police veteran failed to unlock certain files on personal computer devices that were the subject of a federal search warrant.
Court records list the devices as Rawls’ Apple Mac Pro and Mac Mini computers, iPhone 6 Plus ...”
The courts are going to do their job- or perish- no matter Apple’s profits. If Fifth Amendment doctrine has to be adjusted to do so then so it will be.
The AAPL pimps are all up in arms. Poor pimps. They’ll be so sorry to find that the Constitution will not be changed to provide them with profits. I hope they get their money’s worth in exchange for all of the lives damaged and souls taken they want to further so badly. Lest they think we are all cynical money grubbing fools like themselves, I wish they get to enjoy the fruits of their wasted lives sooner rather than later.
Did you know that Swordfish thinks you and I are one in the same? One of the other tin foil hat brigade thinks we are super secret double agents. I think it’s true that the fish rots from the head down.
Sláinte mhaith, Mrs. Smith.
The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is if good men do nothing. I am beginning to regard all the high tech companies as just evil. They think i'm picking on Apple, but I hate Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and pretty much any Liberal ran corporation that is intent on rent-seeking or spying on us.
The courts are going to do their job- or perish- no matter Apple’s profits. If Fifth Amendment doctrine has to be adjusted to do so then so it will be.
A lot of people have not considered the viability of a nation that cannot use search warrants when necessary.
I predict a future when virtually everything will be digital data. Money, correspondence, tickets, deeds, virtually everything.
I agree that everyone should be secure in their papers and such, but when you have reason to believe that a crime has been committed and a Judge has issued a valid warrant to search, it becomes a question of abetting crime when you interfere with the ability of the legal system to discover evidence.
What we have to do is to balance the rights of the public with the necessities of governance. That is what the founders did when they created the Search Warrant system. Obviously the "writs of assistance" were overly broad, and Search Warrants became a reasonable compromise.