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Tim Cook calls FBI backdoor demand 'dangerous,' vows to fight case
If Apple were to lose this case, then say goodbye to your personal data forever, because once a so-called "back-door" is created – any hacker will have access to all your personal information. Fact: No gov't agency has ever been able to protect digital data from being hacked – including the Pentagon and White House. If they get an "encryption key", so will any serious hacker out there. They always do. And by setting a precedent, expect other governments in other countries to demand the exact same thing for any reason they feel like.
To give government law enforcement agencies whatever they want with no legal protection for individual personal privacy is by definition a police state.
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Justice Department asserts it could demand source code, signing key from Apple
Threats. Bullying. Intimidation. And they wonder why the public doesn't trust the government?
FBI director James Comey should be fired for starting this grandstand hostile attack on Apple – treating them like a criminal organization. Obviously, Tim Cook has no choice but to fight this.
The damage Comey has done to the FBI's reputation, much less the entire relationship tech companies will have with them going forward is incalculable. I mean, why would any big tech company want to "cooperate with", much less ever trust this gov't bureaucrat prick again?
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FBI contacted Apple, received data related to San Bernardino case 3 days after shooting
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US Department of Justice files motion to force Apple to crack terrorist's iPhone
"The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation," Cook wrote. "In the wrong hands, this software -- which does not exist today -- would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession."The FBI couldn't protect the country against 911 despite the fact that the attackers were "under survellance". The result after that historic failure are new laws that for the first time in American history circumvent 'habeus corpus'. And we now all live in a country where all citizens' have their personal information and communications surveilled 24/7. With cameras watching us on every street corner. Where we have to take our shoes and belts off and be subject to bodily search just to fly home for the holidays. And yet where they cannot protect us from identity theft, phone fraud or having our personal data stolen from hackers in other countries.
If we give everything gov't law enforcement agencies want, America will be by definition a surveillance police state. Where companies like Apple are legally forced to work for them. Rather than protect the privacy of their customers. This "overreach" by the FBI and their political cronies in Washington is going to permanently alter this country - beyond recognizability as we lose more and more of our rights - if leaders like Tim Cook don't stand up to them.
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Black Lives Matter activists say FBI fight to break iPhone encryption threatens civil liberties
"No party should wield the power to force private companies to weaken the security of all in order to investigate a few..."
Nicely put. The logic is so obvious you'd think the FBI would be more intelligent and stop acting so damn aggressively to defend a thoroughly myopic and self-serving political agenda. I don't want to be trite, but it reminds me of that famous line spoken by Mr. Spock in Star Trek - "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." In other words, Democracy.
One sad result of FBI director James Comey's grandstanding - most likely just to lobby for more cyber-crime funding from Congress - is that many people will have a lot less respect for the FBI when all this is said and done. -
Apple hires away Amazon exec to head up corporate digital security, report says
This is the next logical step for Apple in light of all the FBI news.
Based on Apple's history when facing anything that in any way threatens their secrecy, such as the FBI's recent full-court press to literally wreck their iOS integrity, I believe this is a logical response.
In other words, Tim Cook is doing what he has in the past - 'doubling down on security'.
In addition, hiring George Stathakopoulos makes perfect sense in light of recent reports that Apple is extending their encryption to their iCloud service - literally making it end-to-end, making it literally impossible for them to "help" the FBI going forward to access that data as they have in the past - without the owner's password.
FBI director James Comey's aggressive authoritarian attacks against Apple and other tech companies since taking the job in 2013 has done incalculable damage to the FBI's reputation. Making it almost impossible for any CEO to trust, much less want to "cooperate" with the FBI going forward. This is bad for the FBI and bad for the country. Frankly, I think Comey should resign. -
Apple turning comparatively low profit on iPhone SE despite cheaper parts, analyst says
"Apple's bill of materials is probably about $260"
Q: How can he know what Apple is paying for the parts?
A: He doesn't.
"that would indicate a profit margin of roughly 35 percent, lower than the mid-40s estimated for the iPhone 6s"
Just what the stock market needs, another so-called Apple analyst guesstimating, conjecturing and making stuff up to support a completely unverifiable conclusion to justify a job... doing what exactly? Gossiping.
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Apple, US prosecutors to present and cross-examine witnesses at iPhone encryption hearing
Herbivore2 said:jwestveer said:I hope not. I continue to be embarrassed by the actions of the US Government.
Obama did not limit the NSA, he expanded their powers while attempting to incarcerate true defenders of the constitution like Eric Snowden.
To make matters worse, there's no one in the upcoming election who will attempt to reign in the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. Since both the Democratic elites and Republican elites have an unusually excessive degree of fear over the possibility of a Trump presidency, he will get my vote. If the country goes down, Trump will ensure that all of the politicians and wealthy elites go down too.
Mutually assured destruction. Like in the Cold War. Maybe only then will a real discussion take place and the country move forward rationally.
The current circus surrounding the iPhone encryption promoted by Obama has hardened me against the Democratic Party. I won't be voting for Hillary who will just continue the attempt to force Apple to perform the great iPhone hack. Trump probably will too. But he will use that hack against the congressional members of both parties. He won't hesitate. And it will force congress to pass a law which allows Apple to keep its software secure. And by a large enough margin to ensure that it's veto proof. It might even usher in bipartisanship for the first time in many years.
Trump gets my vote. Unless Obama does the right thing and calls off the dogs at the FBI.
Not that this apparently matters to you, but this article and the comments about it are about an up-coming court hearing between Apple, the FBI and DoJ next week. Not the next election 8 months away.
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Donald Trump promises to make Apple manufacture in US instead of China
AppleInsider said:In a campaign speech at Virginia's fundamentalist Liberty University on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tangentially promised that he would force Apple to manufacture its hardware in the US instead of looking to overseas labor
"We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers in this country instead of other countries," Trump saidEveryone has the right to say something idiotic occasionally. Apparently Donald Trump is making it a full-time job.
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Proposed Senate bill grants courts authority to force access to encrypted data