Posted on Feb 17, 2016
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Privacy or terrorism? Is that the question? Many wonder what the US will have end up doing to fight world terrorism. Can terrorism be allowed to hoist US on our own freedoms? What's your take on this issue?
Apple: Complying with order to break into terrorist's iPhone...
Posted from statesman.com
Terrorism
War on Terror
Constitution
Posted 8 y ago
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If the government is going to get in the business of forcing individuals or companies to break into the property of US citizens, then we are going down the wrong path. Yes, in this case the US citizen was a terrorist, but undermining the Constitution is not the appropriate way to respond to terrorism. What's next? Forcing friends to break into their friends' homes to collect information on them? Or forcing companies to plant bugs in private citizens' places because they have access to it?
Forcing a person or an entity to break into something is not part of the search and seizure rights. If the government wants to, it can contract with a security company to break into whatever they think is legal, but it should be a voluntary contract. Forcing people, or organizations, to break into things against their will, is not something a free democratic country does.
Forcing a person or an entity to break into something is not part of the search and seizure rights. If the government wants to, it can contract with a security company to break into whatever they think is legal, but it should be a voluntary contract. Forcing people, or organizations, to break into things against their will, is not something a free democratic country does.
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LTC Yinon Weiss, I agree. I was actually shocked when I read this. I had to read it twice. I originally thought I read that Apple refused to break in. In our country, how can a private company be made to do anything like this? I thought that was what HLS, CIA, and FBI was for. Guess I'm wrong.
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I support Apple's resistance to comply. If the Government want to break into dude's iPhone, then they should get the NSA to do it...isn't that what we pay them to do, anyway? :) (before anyone takes offense at me poking fun at the NSA, please note, I'm a former 2651, Sig Int, so I can do that) :D
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Tim Cook said it well:
"The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals," he said. "We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand."
According to Cook, the government's objective would require Apple to create a backdoor into its devices which currently doesn't exist, leaving thousands at risk.
"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone," he said. "But that's simply not true.
"Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks — from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable."
"The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals," he said. "We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand."
According to Cook, the government's objective would require Apple to create a backdoor into its devices which currently doesn't exist, leaving thousands at risk.
"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone," he said. "But that's simply not true.
"Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks — from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable."
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Capt Tom Brown
Apple itself has said the gvt only wants access to this particular device and not to 'hack our own users...' In this case many prefer to actually believe the gvt has our best interests at heart and intends to fight world terrorism which does not recognize any human right at any level. Unfortunately it requires fire to fight fire as was the case in WWII when allies did become as bad as and worse than the Nazis and Nips.
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Capt Tom Brown
"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone," he said. "But that's simply not true.
"Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks — from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable."
"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone," he said. "But that's simply not true.
"Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks — from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable."
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