It's humour, directed at the party that has been most thoughtless and dishonest of late. Maybe your delusional knee-jerk paranoid Republicanism kept you from seeing it for what it was -- a joke.
Maybe the FBI needs to be called in to force Apple to crack a smile on your face. Lighten up, Francis.
No sog, the point is that Apple can do it, but the FBI wants more than this, demands a custom iOS version that lets, if they want, open whatever phone that want, disguised as a fight to terrorism. They could have asked Apple how to proceed before changing the Apple ID and blocking the back-up process of the phone, that was owned by San Bernardino country, and as the owner was entitled to ask for help then. But they make a mistake and they now want to use Apple to blame of a possible threat for their mistake.
Is really curious that you get that belligerent with me in what probably is the only issue in which we agree since I have read your posts. (Never giving you a negative, I considered it a lack of respect of other people opinions)
I'm not being belligerent. I'm simply stating you are wrong when you say it would be easy to over ride the 10 tries limitation.
This is what you said:
"My programing skill, ever low level, are totally gone but is as easy as going to the code line that counts the number of mistaken passwords and change the number ten that redirect to the wipe out code and put one billion or one trillion and you got a phone that can be unblocked with a brute force attack."
I'm saying it is not easy to just change the amount of tries you have to guess the password. Apple devices are built with security that makes it hard to do exactly what you say is easy.
Ok guy, and the my coding skill are totally rusty don't make you get this as simply a badly executed, ok, example and the thesis to be the other parts of my posts. Because I have been saying all the time, that Apple can unlock the phone, whatever you want to think, they admitted it. But that's not the point, the point is that the FBI want to make a system to unlock any phone making a taylor made iOS for them. And the argument is make with a phone that blocked the FBI making a mistake when they manipulated it. We agree, right?
Ok, If I want to be controversial I would have get to the point that the US government make this people dangerous letting them buy weapons to do the shooting. Here, in Europe, is much difficult to get the firearms, so that make this event more improbable, and easy to distinguish from common crime, while the San Bernardino shooting rampage looked, at first sight, like another one. That took the FBI precious time to distinguish the act from common crime, something that could have let them get more information and better counteract possible additional threats, that, by the way, seeing the attack look merely as an isolated one and made by fanatics with easy access to weapons, US government fault, than by a coordinated attack like the Paris autumn one, not the early 2015 to Charlie Hebdo, that was also an isolated act organized by an autonomous group, with training, but not ordered from Al-Qaeda or ISIS. If I tried to be controversial, remember. I'm not judging, and I back Apple on this issue, but I must confess that I was more ambitious before knowing that the FBI blocked the phone.
To finish, sorry if I had get too long, Belligerent in a friendly manner, I believe in this places in the friendly change of opinions, even if they are totally opposed, peace, sog, even if you don't think so, I got a big respect for you, even if most of the time, as I have said, disagree.
"Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in New York’s Eastern District said in a
ruling on Monday that the United States government couldn’t use a law
called the All Writs Act to force Apple to hack into an iPhone that was
seized in connection with a drug case. The government overstepped what
the All Writs Act was intended for, the judge wrote."
“After
reviewing the facts in the record and the parties’ arguments, I
conclude that none of those factors justifies imposing on Apple the
obligation to assist the government’s investigation against its will,”
Judge Orenstein wrote. “I therefore deny the motion.”
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Ha ha ha ... I thought you people were supposed to be smart. Now I'm wondering what planet you might be from.
Ok, If I want to be controversial I would have get to the point that the US government make this people dangerous letting them buy weapons to do the shooting. Here, in Europe, is much difficult to get the firearms, so that make this event more improbable, and easy to distinguish from common crime, while the San Bernardino shooting rampage looked, at first sight, like another one. That took the FBI precious time to distinguish the act from common crime, something that could have let them get more information and better counteract possible additional threats, that, by the way, seeing the attack look merely as an isolated one and made by fanatics with easy access to weapons, US government fault, than by a coordinated attack like the Paris autumn one, not the early 2015 to Charlie Hebdo, that was also an isolated act organized by an autonomous group, with training, but not ordered from Al-Qaeda or ISIS. If I tried to be controversial, remember. I'm not judging, and I back Apple on this issue, but I must confess that I was more ambitious before knowing that the FBI blocked the phone.
To finish, sorry if I had get too long, Belligerent in a friendly manner, I believe in this places in the friendly change of opinions, even if they are totally opposed, peace, sog, even if you don't think so, I got a big respect for you, even if most of the time, as I have said, disagree.
"Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in New York’s Eastern District said in a ruling on Monday that the United States government couldn’t use a law called the All Writs Act to force Apple to hack into an iPhone that was seized in connection with a drug case. The government overstepped what the All Writs Act was intended for, the judge wrote."
“After reviewing the facts in the record and the parties’ arguments, I conclude that none of those factors justifies imposing on Apple the obligation to assist the government’s investigation against its will,” Judge Orenstein wrote. “I therefore deny the motion.”
Take that Comey and your gang of bullies!