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"...while Apple engineers are working to secure its devices against nefarious elements, they cannot do so effectively if the FBI continues to chip away at existing iOS encryption protocols.”

It has become abundantly clear that the FBI is not interested in protecting individual privacy. Despite what Director James Comey may spin – stating that ‘privacy is very important’ to the FBI in his ultra-prepared rehearsed statements in front of Congressional Committee hearings – fact is privacy is only important to him when the FBI and all other law enforcement organizations everywhere have unfettered access to it.

Guys like Comey will only be satisfied when America is a police surveillance state. With new laws being drafted right now in the U.S. Congress – and in other countries, particularly France – to this affect, it is happening right before our eyes.

Once it happens, expect hackers to run amok unchecked – because there will be no secure encryption and no protection. And then expect the FBI to demand even more funding as identity theft explodes out of control. All in the name of “national security”. This is what happens when political hacks and law enforcement ignoramuses are put in charge.

Mark my words, the millisecond China jumps in and drafts the same kind of full-access surveillance mobile device "back-door" laws of their own – Apple stock will tank.

Excuse my rant. But I am so disappointed by these gov’t zealots wrecking Apple and taking away our liberty and privacy.

"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. 

These reviews are nothing more than seeing how close copy-cats can copy. It begs the question: why buy an imitation when you can get the original? Especially when they lack the original's unique features and qualities? A more accurate headline would read: THE IMITATION GAME: Latest Samsung iPhone imitation better than last year's imitation - but still not better than the iPhone.

"In 2014 and again last year, law enforcement groups pointed to significant drops in violent crime statistics directly related to the strong security employed in iOS Activation Lock—25 percent in New York, and 40 percent in San Francisco. Police in New York City were actively encouraging users to upgrade their iPhone software to take advantage of the increased security (below), which has been regularly enhanced with each major release since then." 

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. - and F.B.I. Director James Comey - are f**king liars and hypocrites.

"While technically true, Lynch's statement, aired as part of a one-on-one session with Bloomberg's Emily Chang, typifies what appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding of modern encryption declared in recent days by high-ranking government players."

Loretta Lynch is either acting as a political spin doctor obligated to support the DoJ, or based on her absurdly long-winded simplistic view of the bigger privacy repercussions from unlocking that iPhone, she sounds more like just another technological ignoramus. In either case, she apparently is not qualified to give a knowledgeable opinion regarding iPhone encryption and Apple's role in the bigger issue being discussed. Lynch could easily become an embarrassment to the administration and should probably stop speaking on Tv about this anymore – at least until it has played out in Congress and the courts.