The DOJ’s latest filing against Apple is a hot mess. It deliberately makes up what Apple has been arguing then flings apoplectic fits of OUTRAGE!! against these imaginary points decorated with all manner of innuendo of sinister motives. Buried in this polemic is a line that should chill any American
This burden, which is not unreasonable, is the direct result of Apple’s deliberate marketing decision to engineer its products so that the government cannot search them, even with a warrant.
You gotta wonder how that sounded in the original German.
How dare any private company create a product for customers concerned about the security of their information and communications? Why, if you’re not doing anything the government decides is wrong why worry?
Now the FBI is doubling-down on threats.
The FBI on Thursday threatened to raise the stakes in its legal battle with Apple (AAPL), suggesting it might demand access to the iPhone maker’s source code and secret electronic signature used to verify the legitimacy of its software updates. […]
[I]n a court filing on Thursday, the FBI said that if can’t require Apple to create the weakened software, it may demand access to what it described as Apple’s “crown jewels” instead. Source code is the list of programming code instructions used to create the software that runs the iPhone. The code controls everything from the background colors on the screen to the most critical security protections the phone has. Apple’s secret signature is a digital “key” required to update software on all iPhones.
Now you see the real endgame.
It’s as if you were required to give your local police department a set of keys to your home, safe deposit box and car … Just.In.Case.
I want my job to be easier too but, I try to avoid forcing others do it for me.
In a new court filing (http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/dojreply.pdf) Thursday, the Department of Justice argued that Apple(AAPL) should be forced to write new software to load onto the iPhone at hand to help FBI investigators unlock (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-what-exactly-the-fbi-wanted-from-apple-2016-02-17) it, partly because Chief Justice John Marshall once forced Aaron Burr’s clerk to “decipher a coded letter” the third vice president had written after Burr was charged with treason.
The government says that it isn’t asking Apple for “decryption services” in its request that the company write new software that would nix several security features paralyzing investigators who want to see if the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook has evidence beyond what they’ve obtained from iCloud backups. (The most recent backup investigators have is from October, and the shooting was in December.) But it says that bit of history shows there would be a precedent for that too, given the Burr case.
Imagine if I had such power as a physician: download your grocery shopping and liquor purchases like I now can review all your pharmacy prescriptions from anywhere in the US, maybe even give me the power to block your purchase of a 2 Liter Coke at the Stop and GO since your BMI is greater than 40 and it’s hurting my CMS profile and reducing my reimbursement rates… …and then think about single payor government health care where I would be a government employee… …just a thought to make your Friday bright.
I find it reprehensible that people lock their doors and hide their weapons, cash and valuables behind heavy barriers and complex locking mechanisms. Someone could steal them and I, valiant and goodhearted public guardian, would have no way of knowing about it until the victims — actually accessories after the fact — get around to informing me.
I need all locks, doors, and walls abolished so I may more efficiently protect you.
what’s the difference really between this and e-verify though
griefer
Um, really?
yes yes for reals
intrusive is intrusive
Aren’t there any pro-Bernie websites you could be infesting, thor, jr.?
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Greetings:
I pretty much inflicted my thinking and keystroking on this matter back on 17 February. The subsequent back-and-forths haven’t changed my opinion a byte.
It isn’t often that I find an opportunity to quote from the theology of Crosby, Stills, et al. but here goes, “What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground…”.
If undermining this capability which we all got a long without not so very long ago gives us a chance to send some more Islamaniacs home to the Allah-dude feet-first, I’ll muddle through the resulting traumas.
Mr. 40 I’m disappointed to hear you say that.
This new tool will just give the federal lernerthugs another cudgel to beat the failmerican peoples with.
You underestimate how much hatred the federal government has for the failmerican people.
So 111B40 doesn’t mind being a kept woman as long as he’s kept in style. That’s an excessively oblique and tenuous reference to what Franklin said about trading liberty for security.
If I were the CEO of Apple, I’d be looking to incorporate in Switzerland about now.
Greetings, happyfeety: ( @ March 12, 2016 at 1:57 pm )
Please be disappointed no longer. Think about how much cuter your avatar is than mine.
Yesterday, I finished reading “Enemies: The History of the FBI” by Tim Weiner of “Legacy of Ashes” fame. According to him and his rather extensive notes, the FBI et other governmental als. have been at this sneeky-looky business for the last 100 years or so and the sky hasn’t totally fallen yet. I accept that this will/might be another cudgel (and after 13 years of formal Catholic education, I’m familiar with a wide and even wider variety of cudgels) in their toolbox, but being of totally Oyrish heritage probability of success never enters into my decision to fight process.
When former President Nixon tasked himself with bringing down our republic to his acceptable level, he ended up in court figuratively if not actually and he, himself, was brought down. This issue is now in the courts which somewhat amazes me as opposed to the Obama Administration’s proclivity for the “Nice Apple you got there, Timmy.” approach. My limited understanding of our current Constitution is that’s how and where issues like this get handled. I worry not at all about Apple’s ability to afford a fair legal defense not to mention wage its public relations campaign with much free media support.
Lord knows that the government has been found to have done plenty to validate your assertions. But every government everywhere at anytime eventually gets to that point. Sometimes, it’s the darkness before the dawn and sometimes it’s the darkness before midnight. I’m afraid that I would have to bet on the latter.
Greetings, Ernst Schreiber: ( @ March 12, 2016 at 2:00 pm )
I think that you misjudge me. I’m not the one arguing for the necessity of the latest style encrypto-phone. I’m the one arguing to in-crypt a bunch of 7th Century barbarians whose ideas about liberty and security vary greatly from those of Mr. Franklin. “First things first,” my mother taught me. What liberty exists without security ???
Mr. 40 think on this also though… for the last 100 years we were protected cause of how the ratio of data to manpower to analyze that data was so extraordinarily skewed.
Data-mining tools and, very soon, AI technology, they’re inverting that relationship in a terrifying way.
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Greetings, happyfeety: ( @ March 12, 2016 at 3:57 pm )
No disagreement on my part. In fact, Mr. Weiner made that point in his FBI book that lots of useful information ended up in unopened file drawers due to lack of experienced data-connecting staff.
I think that what separates my thinking is the non-self-censored blabber-data aspect. Have people become so impelled to load their data into the interweb that they have a serious sense of risk ??? Well, stop doing that. I seem to be surviving okay with a no-data, no-text simple 1.0 cell phone. No Facebook, no Twitter, no problem.
Self-controlled and self-reliant aren’t bad ways to live your life. This whole song and dance leaves me thinking it’s a kind of mass hysteria.
My favorite Platoon Sergeant had an interesting philosophy when it came to target selection. It went, “Close ones, big ones, then all the rest.” While Apple ties up the investigation, our Muslim brothers and sisters are probably out there laughing up their burnoose sleeves at how the kuffars can tie themselves in Islamophobia induced knots.
So, until the box-score starts to even out, I err on the side of in-crypting as many Muslims as possible.
We need to stop being suicidal. As long as we pretend they are the same as we are, they will be a danger.
I think it’s cool that government agencies will soon be able to take control of anyone’s phone, including the camera microphone, without a warrent or even their knowledge, and spy on their life in all its glory. Just think, people don’t take a shot without their phone, or discuss business, have sex, or pretty much anything outside the range of their phones microphone.
Of course this utter lack of privacy and forfeiture of the 4th amendment will never stop terrorism, but if it helps the authorities figure out how the terrorism happened months after the event, like the one they are talking about now, totally worth it. I mean, if you’re honest, what should you care if a few dozen Gmen listen in while you pleasure your wife, am I right?
Don’t take a shit without their phone, you fucking fascist spellchecker…
On my daily internet rounds I regularly see people freaking out because the ads on websites they visit indicate a knowledge of online shopping queries they’ve used in the past few days. “ZOMGWTFBBQ Google is reading my mind!!!!1!!!!!!onehundredeleventyone!!!” I find these freak-outs amusing.
People who are okay with treating millions of innocent law-abiding smartphone users as criminals so that the government — currently run by Barack Obama, and potentially run in the near future by Hillary Clinton or Donald “Vote for me or I’ll sue!” Trump — might find information that may or may not exist that identifies someone that might need to be watched for a few days to be sure he’s not in contact with someone that once tweeted “ala hackbar” at a CAIR member…?
Not so much.
We’ve already seen the current administration punish its enemies with the force they have at their disposal. I’m sure it happened in other administrations as well. Why would anyone want to hand them freely even more ammunition?
the FBI et other governmental als. have been at this sneeky-looky business for the last 100 years or so and the sky hasn’t totally fallen yet
So a little bit of cancer is ok if it doesn’t kill you right away?
Funny thing about falling skies. They always “haven’t fallen yet” right up until they do.
I keep trying to find reasons why I should give up my “stupid” flip phone …
This isn’t helping.