NemWan

sog35 said:

How insensitive of Apple.

Hundreds of innocent lives are lost each year at sea from Pirates around the world.

You should share your opinion with @SusanKare. I'd love to see her customize the original Mac's 32x32 pixel hand icon just for you.

sog35 said:

NemWan said:

The government would protect the most people's security by helping Apple make the iPhone more secure. There is no reason to prevent Apple from fixing this flaw. The knowledge that at least the iPhone 5c can be cracked will deter criminals from using it. If it is left vague that the flaw may affect more iPhones then criminals will avoid the iPhone altogether. iPhone 5c phones already in government custody will not be made inaccessible by Apple's fix.

I disagree.

If its a hardware crack (requiring physical access to the phone) I see no reason for the FBI to tell Apple.
If its a software crack that can be done REMOTELY then they need to tell Apple.

I disagree with the premsie that only "good guys" can exploit physical access.

The government would protect the most people's security by helping Apple make the iPhone more secure. There is no reason to prevent Apple from fixing this flaw. The knowledge that at least the iPhone 5c can be cracked will deter criminals from using it. If it is left vague that the flaw may affect more iPhones then criminals will avoid the iPhone altogether. iPhone 5c phones already in government custody will not be made inaccessible by Apple's fix.

roake said:

Personally, I don't want some hairy guy wearing a dress in the bathroom with my 6-year-old daughter.

North Carolina politicians seem oblivious to the high quality of modern gender reassignment procedures and what the implications are: North Carolina law now requires a person who was biologically female at birth, who now identifies as male, and looks convincingly male, following surgeries and hormone therapies, to use the same bathroom as your daughter. Your daughter won't see a guy wearing a dress in the bathroom, she'll just see a guy in there, dressed as a guy — a guy who lost the choice to use the men's room because he has XX chromosomes. Do you expect that trans people who had "unnoticeable" surgery should just secretly break the law and use the bathroom they look like they belong in, because they probably won't get caught? That's going against the law. Is the law just supposed to apply to trans people who don't look "normal"?

Scientists finally figured out that the TMA-1 monolith that was found on the moon in 1999 is a flat screen TV.