kellie

quakerotis said:

Donald is a totalitarian fascist.

Americans vote3d him in because they are idiots.

He is a predator and will hurt America.

Tim's bribe will not end up looking good.

apple4thewin said:

ajeffrey said:

This is just blatant extortion by the Indonesian Govt. Why should Apple invest $1 billion in a country just so they can sell their products there. If I were Apple I would tell them where they can put there request and sell older iPhones, it's only the Indonesian public that will suffer.

The real question is if Apple make $1 billion in sales in Indonesia 

realjustinlong said:

22july2013 said:

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

Fear mongering about Hamas potentially having iPhones without a back door is ridiculous. There are news stories from 10 years ago about Hamas in particular avoiding cellphones to prevent Israeli assignation attempts. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2014/02/gaza-israel-islamic-jihad-hamas-mobile-war.html

This is why the Israeli government is using exploding pagers to attack Hezbollah and civilians in Lebanon.

While presidents currently do not have the constitutional authority to create laws, a large part of the platform that he campaigned on is consolidating powers into the executive branch. All he would need to enact those changes is a supportive house, senate, and judiciary… and a removal of the filibuster.

You don’t understand the political realities of what Trump is challenged with.  Everything you say about how easily he could enact new laws is very ignorant of political realities.  

Look at how many executive orders Biden issued on day one of his presidency.  Look at the student loan executive orders by Biden that were found to be illegal by the Supreme Court, yet Biden kept issuing new ones. You have a very one sided and incomplete comprehension of what the current administration has done and a very warped perspective of what you think Trump can do.  TDS. 

kmarei said:

22july2013 said:

DAalseth said:

I fully expect 47 to push through a law requiring Apple to build in a back door. With that, there will go our security. 

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

so your argument is we should monitor all phones?

yes about your trump statement, but unlike other presidents, no one says no to him. no republican senator or member of the house dares say no to him. or he will get negative tweets that night around 2-3am from trump. and he'll get a moderately funny schoolkid nickname.
he has close to absolute power
presidency
senate
house
and supreme court

mfryd said:

22july2013 said:

DAalseth said:

I fully expect 47 to push through a law requiring Apple to build in a back door. With that, there will go our security. 

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

It would be a challenge to install a backdoor for only non-American phones.

The iPhone gets a lot of security from the fact that the hardware/software architecture is designed to not allow backdoors.  If you change the underlying architecture to allow backdoors, then American phones will essentially have backdoors, we will just have to live with the promise that they won't be opened.

We know from experience, that US law allows the government to obtain search warrants without the subject knowing he is being surveilled.  We also know that Apple is a US based company and subject to US law.  Should Apple be presented with such a warrant they would be obligated to open the backdoor.

Thus, in practice, you can't have backdoors that apply only to non-US phones.

Now whether or not you think that Apple's level of privacy is a good or bad thing, is a different topic.

Apple gets warrants all the time to provide access to iCloud data.  Your phone may be a secure sanctum from the government because of the security built into the phone and software.  But unless you take the extra step of doing a single key encryption of your iCloud data, all of that iCloud data is shareable with the government when Apple is presented with a valid warrant.  

There’s also data in motion that the government has a better ability to hack not.  So I wouldn’t be too worried about backdoors on phones. The government has other ways a getting your data.