jmoore5196

These folks sustain one of the biggest consumer data breaches in American history, then claim to be an electronics retailer.

Give me a break.

'Gold Standard?'  Really?

I don't think I've ever seen anything MS produces worthy of a 'Gold Standard.'

Another 1% failing to live by his own maxims.  Good riddance.

At the end of the day, we have no proof that the FBI succeeded at anything ... we're put in the rather awkward position of having to take the FBI's word that they did so.

I'm willing to bet that someone at Justice realized (a) the court case would be lost and (b) some PR damage control was necessary.  Viola!  They invented the story of the hacked iPhone as cover.  And of course, most of us buy it because we still believe whatever the government says is true.

CMA102DL said:

Good stuff. We have a Constitution because experience and history shows that our government has a tendency to keep too many secrets and overreach its power and authority. 

No, we have a Constitution because Great Britain was ruled by an overreaching, secretive monarch who kept trying to extend his power and authority.  At the time of the Constitutional Convention, there was no 'experience and history' of any kind with respect to the United States government.