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rufwork said:

GovtOS? How is this not fbiOS? Seriously missed opportunity.

It's a court pleading, not a cutesy-ass internet meme.

Yea, if this discussion were about the rampant proliferation of guns and the 30k deaths we have annually you'd see thousands of comments about the 2nd Amendment. But since it's only about the 4th Amendment and several other ambiguous rights to privacy and intrusion of law enforcement on basic liberties, the right wingers don't care. LIke every other issue, they are stupid enough to think they can give up a whole lot of liberty in sacrifice to a little security. It never matter what sort of outlandish nonsense law enforcement does, they are there supporting the fascist cause.

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.