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  • User security, privacy issues draw sharp contrast between Apple iOS, Google Android in FBI encrypti

    tomrlutongtomrlutong
    gadgetcanadav2 said:
    Does the President's Blackberry have a software backdoor or does the constitution only apply to heads of state?
    The constitution applies equally to heads of state and everyone else.  There's no constitutional right to privacy, only to due process.  That's why the President has to turn over records when ordered.

    It would hardly be a victory for constitutional law if the President could just use technical means to refuse to answer subpoenas.

    Also, the order is not for Apple to create a software backdoor. It's to help access the data on a specific device physically in hand. 

  • User security, privacy issues draw sharp contrast between Apple iOS, Google Android in FBI encrypti

    tomrlutongtomrlutong
    This article seems far too reductive to me. The argument that one decryption is all descriptions is just wrong. This has proceeded exactly as it should, through open procedure in public courts.

    You don't get to say "I use Apple products so I can ignore subpenas" or even worse,  "the law doesn't apply because tech."

    Despite their high horse, all I see Apple doing is undermining rule of law. We should be applauding this sort of thing coming out of the NSAs shadow world and into the light of regular law and democratic process.