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Apple reportedly enlists aid of free-speech attorneys in encryption battle
Over 35,000 people are killed with guns in the US every year. When you have adequately addressed that safety issue, then you can turn your attention to the minuscule numbers harmed through terrorism. There have probably been more US citizens wrongfully shot dead by police officers than have been killed by terrorists.Kaitlynn said:At issue here is the safety of American Citizens...what right does a terrorist have when it comes to that? And why would Apple want to defend them, or help keep secret any part of any conversation they may have had, or messages they may have sent, and to whom they were said, or sent?
If it were my company, I would open it up for this phone only, and any future consideration would be made case by case...
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With 63% share, Apple Watch pushes global smartwatch shipments past Swiss watches for first time
The Watch will most likely have the same sales characteristics as the iPad. Huge initial sales and then they will decline.
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User security, privacy issues draw sharp contrast between Apple iOS, Google Android in FBI encrypti
Google pulled out of China rather than cave into the Chinese government and censor search, and also in protest at the Chinese government's hacking of their services like Gmail. Apple has tolerated every single thing the Chinese government have done or demanded to compromise the security of users in China, like the poisoned Xcode, faking the iCloud server and harvesting users logins, hosting all user data in China with the nod-nod - wink-wink fully encrypted data that is in plain form en-route to the server so the Chinese just have to harvest it all before it is encrypted, etc etc.boltsfan17 said:Google's silence tells you where they stand on the issue of security.
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Tim Cook calls FBI backdoor demand 'dangerous,' vows to fight case
So if the Chinese government orders Apple to do them the same favour so they can hack the phones of CIA, NSA and other US government personnel, what should Apple do?enuf said:Apple's position on this is absurd. They should be working to devise a way to comply with the order and maintain security of all other products. The two goals are not incompatible. For example, require the work be physically contained and under Apple's control. The terrorist's phone does not leave the Apple facility. The FBI works with Apple's people on Apple's property with the agreement that the phone does not leave Apple's control with the work-around loaded into it.
The entire attitude should be about getting this job done while maintaining the security of everyone else.
Short of this or some approach along a similar line of thinking, the FBI should seek Tim Cook's arrest, fines and a period of imprisonment for Contempt of Court. If that fails to obtain the necessary response, further prosecution should follow.
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Tim Cook calls FBI backdoor demand 'dangerous,' vows to fight case
The problem arises if the court order is technically feasible. If that is the case, they ultimately might be forced to comply. If that were the case, Apple could make it clear that their compliance would also result in them being forced relocate their iOS software development to a subsidiary in Ireland so that their US operations no longer had the technical capability to comply with such orders.
They couldn't re-locate to the UK because that place is worse than Russia for the states attitude to surveillance of their citizenry.
Switzerland might be a good choice also.
