It is time to ask this question: Who the hell do these elected officials work for? It is not the people who elected them and it is not the companies who fund their campaigns, so who is it? These are not smart people. To get them to all come up with the same idea that to "protect" us they need to see inside our smartphones, you would need to explain it in a way that a person with a basic high school education can understand and you would need some kind of leverage on them which would cause them to risk future donations. "Terrorists bad" or "think of the children" won't cut it when you are proposing legislation to harm all the major tech companies in the state. The only thing that would work is to threaten to leak damaging secrets, possibly criminal acts, about the elected officials. Now who would have access to such information and how would they get it?
Ah, California. On the verge of bankruptcy for almost 10 years - part of the reason is because of moronic politicians like Jim Cooper that don't know anything about what they are doing.
If you are dumb enough to side with this bill, then remove the password from your phone right now. If you're not willing to do that, then you're a hypocrite.
Apple is a major employer in CA. They could decide to up sticks and move their HQ and their employees to another state or even another country. But they won't. It just seems that these Politicians (mostly lawyers) are just after a few quick headlines. It is election year ain't it?
These politicians are truly clueless. It's no wonder our country is in such horrible shape.
They are not cluesless. The only people who are clueless are the naive twats that read something like this and think, "Wow these people must be dumb." No, they are not dumb. They know exactly what they're doing. People are just too cowardly to admit that these people are evil and need to be stopped. It doesn't help you sleep at night to think that government is completely out of your hands, long ago co-opted by legitimately evil people, who have nothing but your worst interests in mind.
Time to move to Texas. Many IT companies already did it. I might join myself... from NYC area.
Dallas, Plano, Austin.. they do not have foolish laws. There are reasons why recent migrations are to Texas from California, New York and some other places. There is also reaon why Toyota moved its all operations from California.
Perhaps Sillicon Valley should die one day.
They're all Democrats, of course, and all are of the belief that government would never, ever, ever misuse private information. Unless the person of interest is a political opponent, particularly a Rethuglican, in which case it's all groovy.
For the record of legislation fools. As IT person I can encript my communications myself today even with foreign developed algorithms that NSA might have problem with it. That does not need to be part of iPhone. You could unlock and see garbled content only. Would I do that? No. Would some terrorist do this? Yes... just like any intelligence agency is capable of this.
It really does not take much work and it cannot be considered crime. Simple as that. So what's your point of this legislation? Destroy technology company reputation?
Politicians are trying to kill eCommerce. Who's going to put their credit card information online when the day comes every system involved in the transaction is legally required to have a backdoor?
Sadly, it's time for every single tech company to follow Halliburton's lead and move their HQ's and legal addresses offshore, and post a note explaining that they don't want to be above the law - they want to be beside it. Feinstein in one of the idiots who MAKE the laws so demanding fealty is part of her package. Fuck her and the local tools by moving their tax base out of town.
There's a quick way to stop this bill... Apple should announce the iPhone will not be sold in California Apple stores and available ONLY by the Internet. The phones will be sold from Arizona only! That should piss off enough people to start protests from the public. Have giant banners made and slap them on those pretty glass doors at each store nice and big:
STARTTING JAN 2017 IPHONES WILL NOT BE SOLD IN CALIFORNIA - CONTACT YOUR ASSEMBY PERSON NOW!
Common sense is loosing to stupid in this case. So hit California where they can truly appreciate it ... In their wallet!
Just an announcement that the new headquarters is being dismantled and moved to a State that understands the rights of its citizens.
Feinstein is part of the reason I now live in AZ. But then again our top legal beagle won't buy any more iPhones for his staff. He wants to be hacked and have his cases compromised. Such idiots on both sides of the aisle.
It's about time to say it...Follow the Money! Just who is sponsoring this buffoonery? Why are all their stated reasons just cut 'n paste versions of the same thing? The argument amongst the opponents of the FBI/DOJ/government have explored all the facets of the case - good, bad and problematical. The status quo?...they're stuck in repetition mode and haven't even tried to allay public fears, address constitutional concerns...nothing. On Fortune, they're saying that Feinstein is naming this the Freedom Bill
They're all Democrats, of course, and all are of the belief that government would never, ever, ever misuse private information. Unless the person of interest is a political opponent, particularly a Rethuglican, in which case it's all groovy.
... On Fortune, they're saying that Feinstein is naming this the Freedom Bill
Freedom to spy on the public?
How they vote is going to come up again this fall for those who are up for re-election. That includes all of the House. Remind them of that when you contact your representatives.
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If you are dumb enough to side with this bill, then remove the password from your phone right now. If you're not willing to do that, then you're a hypocrite.
But they won't.
It just seems that these Politicians (mostly lawyers) are just after a few quick headlines. It is election year ain't it?
Just who is sponsoring this buffoonery? Why are all their stated reasons just cut 'n paste versions of the same thing?
The argument amongst the opponents of the FBI/DOJ/government have explored all the facets of the case - good, bad and problematical. The status quo?...they're stuck in repetition mode and haven't even tried to allay public fears, address constitutional concerns...nothing.
On Fortune, they're saying that Feinstein is naming this the Freedom Bill
How they vote is going to come up again this fall for those who are up for re-election. That includes all of the House. Remind them of that when you contact your representatives.
mandatory flawed devices for police purposes?