If it's possible someone will get it eventually. That's what all the big boy companies thought about their unhackable products. Before they got hit
Except you are wrong. The phrase is from the Declaration of Independence and which reads The US documents do not guarantee happiness. The founding fathers said men(as a species not gender specific) are entitled to try to pursue happiness. Now we could Segway the thread and debate what that means and if you could/should if you disagree with the laws of your nation, say start your own revolution and become your own country. We shouldn't, while people argue the merits of this specific case, which is what the pro unlock/FBI crowd do. Apple and the tech community are arguing the precedent that the case sets. People want to believe the government is some kind of big warm fuzzy teddy bear to keep us safe and comfort them. The truth is governments are ran by flawed everyday people who are selfish and self serving. Ultimate power corrupts, having this kind of access will lead to corruption. Could you imagine if the red scare that MacArthurism brought to this country had even a quarter of the surveillance or intelligence gathering as the fbi/Nsa have today. How different would this country be? Today you say terrorist and people lose their minds. Guess what every American patriot, including the beloved George Washington and founding fathers, would be classified as terrorist with today's definition by the government over them (United kingdom)
This x1000000 Every k12 school in America is required under CIPA to filter their internet. And most schools have students noticed enough to find ways around the filter. Give someone enough time and motivation and EVERYTHING can be hacked.
Ofcourse it can, that's not really the argument, if it gets hacked, Apple just roll out an update and close the hole. If Apple are legally required to build a hole, they will be unable to legally close it again.
Even if they were to produce a new security update immediately after providing a backdoor, they would have to create new security updates everytime someone asked for a new backdoor.
"If civil rights are to be curtailed during wartime, it must be done openly and democratically, as the Constitution requires, rather than by silent erosion through an opinion of this Court. Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis — that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it." -Justice Antonin Scalia Listen, if the government wants to be able to do this that essentially will lead to or have the possibility of leading to infringing upon our Constitutionally protected rights as Americans there is precedent and protocol in which to achieve their goal. A simple court order is not the way and Apple has every right to deny them that. If they want to proceed then do it with transparency. Americans have already sacrificed enough through this war and a good many still want to undo many of the occurrences that did occur (I.e. Patriot Act) that a good percentage of us do not approve of and we thought we were getting rid of when we democratically ousted the GOP in the first place years ago. No more sitting by idly while things that could effect our lives. If you don't like your freedoms then fine. I personally will not actively choose to have any more of mine violated without due process. The price of freedom includes that of occasionally protecting the criminality of some things for the greater good. Like it or not freedom has a price.
So you're saying you can't take a iPhone apart and have a tech download it ? I know there isn't a SIM card or anything but still .
To anyone who supports Apple in fear of their "privacy" I have a few words: Shut the **** up 99% of Americans have literally nothing on their phones that the FBI or anyone would ever be interested in. And anyone that has a genuine reason they don't want anyone seeing what's on their phone are people engaging in illegal activities, and terrorists, etc. Privacy is so damn overrated, it's not even funny. Your "freedom" is so many things, and as an American you have more rights in this country than any other. And you want to give up the possibility of getting potentially crucial information that could save hundreds or thousands of lives for your stupid "privacy"? Smh
The issue here is that they will be forces to make an ios update that can be installed on and decrypt any supported ios device. If this got out into the wrong hands, well it not hard to install an ios update now is it.
It wasn't long ago someone got arrested for posting on a social media site he was going to blow up an airport if they didn't sort out some problem he was having. It was beyond his capabilities to commit the act yet he was charged all the same. If notes on a phone can be read as easily as a social media post then the punishment would be similar. Don't forget they can't see the context so one is a shopping list Apples Milk Rat poison Next note is rant Kill neighbouring Kill boss Then a to do list Fix fence Sort out rats It could be very misleading. Plus your neighbours could have similar list.
Would you be ok then with me installing cameras to monitor what you do at home 24/7? You have nothing to hide. Privacy is not over rated. To the younger generations growing up who freely give up any sense of privacy, to the social media of the day, you will learn someday that there are repercussions. Privacy is not about hiding illegal activity from lawful sources. It is the check on the lawful sources to stay out of my business unless they have strong legal reason to invade my privacy. The US justice system is based off of innocent until proven guilty. It is the laws/prosecutors job to prove I broke the law. The 5th amendment actually prevents them from forcing me to give them information that could incriminate me. Which is exactly what is being suggested by the "we have nothing to hide". Sure right now you don't. And mrs. Clinton did not send classified emails through a private server, well that was until they where retroactively classified. What is to stop to overreach to start looking at trying to prevent crimes before they happen based off of information in the phone/meta data. No sir or ma'am privacy is not overrated. It is vastly underrated
How is your QHD Screen? Lol Simple truth opensource is the best potenial defense against a malicious proposed act/law. With source code freely available to review & share modifications. Backdoors or code that creates security issues can be discovered & fix much easier & faster.
On a serious note...yes, open source means that more developers can work to find and to fix security issues. But you'll never see an enterprise going to XDA in order to install an AOSP rom on their enterprise phones. Because make no mistake, only AOSP is open source. OEMs Android versions are closed-source except kernel. Some developers are more development community friendly (Sony) others are totally opposite (Samsung). There's one year already since Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge was released. Yet there is no functional AOSP rom. Why? Simple: Samsung didn't and will never publish the documentation for their Exynos CPU. Some chinese OEMs (Meizu, Xiamoi and until recently Huawei) keep everything closed-source.
No, they would not. Because as far as anyone is concerned, your private thoughts and musings are not accompanied by an "act." The person you referenced (accepted for the sake of the argument), posted that intention in public, where it would be seen, especially be people who could be affected and feel threatened. That was the "act", threatening others. If this person had just written it in their diary, they would not have been arrested. As I said before, without some "act" no-one can be arrested for their own private thoughts and musings (in the U.S. at least), even if the government were to pry into your diary. You and your little laundry list of vile thoughts are perfectly safe. Note: quotes are redacted for brevity, the entire context is just a few pages back.
If Apple makes such a program to break into the device it would pass a good amount of developers then to FBI as they were asked to hand the unlocking programming to them 70 ppl or so touch the program? What happens to Apple if that po gram got made public? And anyone and everyone was able to unlock any phone?
New York Times is reporting its no longer 1 iphone. It's now 9 more, so 10 all together from the justice department. New york city police are claiming they have 175 they're unable to unlock. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/techn ... ore-iphone