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  • Government says Apple arguments in encryption case a 'diversion,' presents point-by-point rebuttal

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    rob53 said:
    "As for undue burden, the letter notes Apple grosses hundreds of billions of dollars each year. It would take as few as six employees plucked from Apple's workforce of approximately 100,000 people as little as two weeks to create a workable solution to the FBI's problem, the letter says, adding that the company is to blame for being in the position it currently finds itself." 

    Then the FBI should be able to do it themselves. Of course, the DOJ hasn't the faintest idea how much effort would be needed to break Apple's software but that's irrelevant in their mind. All of these excuses are baseless and should be used against them. 

    "Prosecutors classify Apple's statements, including arguments that weakening the security of one iPhone is a slippery slope to a surveillance state, as "not only false, but also corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights." " And what institution is the best at safeguarding our liberty and rights? Certainly not the FBI or DOJ. They've shown over and over and over again that they don't care about the citizens of the US. 
    Apple's response: 
    The overwhelming bulk of our 100,000 employees do not have the expertise or skills required to create what the FBI is asking.  There are only a handful of employees who could create such a compromised version of our OS.  Further, this would limit some our most critical human resources and cripple active product development.

    The public's response (wishful thinking):
    Its very desperate and very misleading statements like these that should be eroding the FBIs authority, not just in this case.  
    This charade is an agency problem, and it's time to start seriously questioning exactly what good they are doing.

    baconstangchia

  • Eddy Cue says FBI could force Apple to secretly activate iPhone camera, microphone if precedent is

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    brakken said:
    I hope Apple execs do more interviews in more languages - the unconstitutional fbi is trying to invade people's privacy from all over the world. 

    Why the hell is the fbi so stupid?!?
    The better question is what led you to believe the FBI was smart or had integrity?

    Because that same indoctrination applies to more agencies than just the FBI.
    tdknoxpostman

  • Eddy Cue says FBI could force Apple to secretly activate iPhone camera, microphone if precedent is

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    apple ][ said:
    I have this one friend that has been taping up the camera lens on all of his devices for more than a decade at least.

    I always thought that that was kind of paranoid and a bit extreme, but who knows, maybe not. Maybe he was onto something there. :#


    Little piece of black electrical tape on cameras is standard procedure in studios.  

    Microphone is difficult to fully disable without monkeying/destroying internals.
    You can reroute it System Prefs to the line input, and even plug a dummy cable in,
    but in a dystopian future of OS backdoors, would be hard to completely neutralize internal mics.
    baconstangtdknox

  • Proposed Senate bill penalizing resistance to decryption requests nears completion, could be introd

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    So they want to tax companies for protecting our privacy?

    This is all just a scheme to get more hooks into a successful company's cash?

    Wow.  This is why you should punch all the Democrats and Republicans you know right in the face, and then any Democrats once more for even pretending to be something other than vile dispicable creeps.   Their teams, and their members sponsor this kind of crap, so all their (your) fault.
    brakkenlatifbpcornchipjeremy c

  • Woz backs Apple in FBI's 'lame' iPhone encryption case

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    rs9 said:
    No one is asking the big questions  How did the NSA/FBI fail to see they where terrorist. How was it he was able to get legal status for his fiancee/wife (a green card no less) when those going through normal and legal channels can take 5 to 10 years to get a green card. Who does this guy know in our government that made it so easy to get a green card for his wife?  Why is no one talking about this?
    The big question is given your point, along with various deliberate breaches of public trust regarding privacy laws, and the egregious leaks of personal data that is both their duty and oath to safeguard, why do we allow government the powers they have, much less the additional ones that they now want?
    jony0buzdotstdknox