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It's basically what I have said from the beginning - that the government has no qualified need to compel Apple to write a new OS, as the suspects are dead and they don't believe others were involved. The FBI and DOJ invented this situation as a ruse to get a backdoor, or obtain through the courts what they ought to be getting from Congress. What's really pathetic is that a majority of Americans, with the help of some worthless politicians and media pundits, are either too dumb to see this truth or willing to let law enforcement lie to violate our rights.

And I have said from the beginning that the FBI has no real plenary authority here. The suspects are dead, the crime is done, there is nothing left to investigate. This is the power of law enforcement to lie to judges in affidavits and go after anyone they want, when they want, under the auspices of 'doing their job.' They lie, cheat and steal all the time. That's their job. And we wonder why we have no rights

Yea, I am not an Apple customer now, nor have I ever been, Yet I support Tim Cook's reasonable view that this request from the FBI is wrong. And it is wrong on multiple levels. For one thing, the crime is done and the suspects are dead. There is no other possible good reason to keep digging into every possible rabbit hole of data except to procure information on people for which the original warrant does not authorize. The government may not use such data in a future prosecution if it is discovered to be obtained illegally, but who would question their willingness to use it to harass innocent persons? Secondly, the government already has a plethora of mechanisms to track suspects via credit cards and debit cards. A good recent example is that of Ethan Couch, the 'affluenza' teen convicted of drunk driving- multiple manslaughter charges who fled to Mexico and got caught on the lam buying pizza. This was a kid on juvenile probation, for gawd's sake, but the US government harnessed all its espionage capabilities to track him down internationally. Third: We live in an ever-expanding police state that has more incarcerated per capita than any other country, including China and Russia. If you don't know why this is important you need to stick your head back in the sand.

San Bernadino County reset the passcode, making it impossible to access the phone's data by any other means but a brute force attack. The did this intentionally, at the request of the FBI. Freaking bunch of liars.

icoco3 said:

"Obama administration, FBI must act to restore US government's credibility..."

How does one restore what one never had.

P.S Great article.

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