Posted on 01/09/2018 2:21:44 PM PST by Swordmaker
Probably should let him put cameras in every room of our homes. We’d all be safer then.
FBI Director Wray calls inability to access Republican electronic devices an urgent public safety issue.
Fixed.
I am absolutely opposed to Law Enforcement access to smart phones without a Warrant.
How many are non-citizens?
Somehow govt got by without electronic devices before without public safety issues.
Don’t phone companies still keep records of phonecalls? Why do they need access to phones themselves?
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20 years ago I “Trusted” the FBI and would have supported them getting the ability to access cell phones and defeat passwords.
Now I don’t trust em!
Send a few FBI agents to prison !!! Then we’ll talk.
The FBI is pretty much worse than worthless.
These 7,800 devices have warrants, but they are locked with the users' passcodes. . . and only the users know the passcodes. My take is that all of these are Apple iPhones and iPads as those are the only ones the FBI cannot unlock with commercially available tools. Even Apple does not have the passcodes or a means of unlocking a modern iOS device.
Court Order = FISA Court = Wink and a Nod.
They want access to the photos, notes, email, contacts, messages, etc.
Inability to read our minds is a pretty serious problem also.
On Coast to Coast AM last night, a guest predicted that the US public would get fed up with insecure American (branded) electronics and China seeing a commercial opportunity would develop them, circumventing our domestic snoops. I find that prediction highly plausible.
Guess some guys at the FBI are having trouble breaking into their ex-wives phones and things like that.
The government has gone out of their way to earn distrust. The government does more evil than good. For every true criminal case where they need access, in my humble opinion, there are likely dozens of situations where the government is illegally accessing information for Rat partisan purposes and personal illegal reasons.
Fixed it.
Handsets have such a quick development cycle that they can’t insert their own secret sauce.
I’m betting that the Intel “flaw” was deliberate, and someone spilled the beans so they are pretending it was an “error”.
I don’t think the FBI can be trusted to investigate crime or terrorism, and they certainly cannot be trusted to protect Americans or America from harm from any source.
Perhaps if the FBI spent some time prosecuting the criminals in their midst, they would be taken a little more seriously, but until then, the answer is “no”.
It would immediately be used to blackmail right of center politicians and to subvert a lot more than just the 4th Amendment.
Wray, if he’s honest, and that cannot include any FBI agent at this point in time, would focus on dismantling this farce and figuring out how to actually get someone to take over the mission of protecting the USA from terrorism that the FBI ignored in favor of framing a republican presidential candidate.
The US is not the only country that Apple sells iPhones in. If the US gets access, every other government will want it. Shortly thereafter it will be all over.
Apple does NOT want to deal with a back door. There is no way to secure it.
Cook is right.
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