Should Apple create a “back door” to the iPhone to help investigators?
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we sold away our civil liberties when we allowed the Patriot Act to pass. This latest thing becomes irrelevant as a result. But I’d rather be blown up from some fanatic with a cause than to give up any more of the Constitution. Nothing can guarantee 100% safety.
An apple a day keeps the FBI away.
Love your input on this one. Clever.
They have 18 missing minutes on that cellphone. It may be something or it may be nothing. I wouldn’t risk it to have even more terrorists able to access our private places.
As screwed around as it sounds, a terrorist who is killing citizens to stand for his/her beliefs isn’t standing for mine. They have abdicated any right afforded thru our Constitution, Seems an Apple genius and FBI can come up with a solution. Tech is moving warp speed, humans aren’t.
There’s nothing on my phone that any government agency can see other ways if they want. What bothers me more is that Google maps can show you my back yard.
I’m with you on that. Google earthing your house is surreal, although generally months and months old.
The only terrorist they have caught, with their almighty powers, have been what “none” and I’m to worry about this. Better minds will work out a compromise and my apple will be safe. And as to the Government, quit sitting on your you no what and do your job.
I agree with Apple on this one, and I don’t even own an Apple product. We wouldn’t have let this woman in to the country if we were doing a better job of how & who we let in. Also, this guy was visiting some of these terrorist countries. It’s time we keep a better watch on all of this before we take more of OUR rights away.
Sounds like Ben could see the future.
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”-Benjamin Franklin
I agree with Ben but I don’t see cracking into one phone as surrendering our freedom. I don’t believe for a second that Apple doesn’t already have a back door to our phones. Who builds a lock that doesn’t open?
I need to go back and get a an article posted by a right wing publication that stated that the phone used by the terrorist shooter was owned by the city government agency that he worked for.
That I was supposed to backed up every so often by the end user so the government officials could make sure that it was being used for “official use only”. Only the terrorist shooter stopped backing up the data.
That somehow through inept actions the data could not be recovered.
Apple should not open up this can of worms for the federal government to access anyone’s phone.
Sorry nay sayers. In my humble opinion, as per the Constitution, if it is a legitimate, court ordered warrant, Apple should comply. If it doesn’t, the CEO should be imprisoned and the company shut down until they do.
“Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security”
Benjamin Franklin
Personally, I always considered this quote is the definition of slavery.
Absolutely… Gotta fight terriorism…!
As far as I’m concerned… criminals should have very few rights…!
Apple…opening privacy is a slippery slope leading to no privacy at all. This country is the most paranoid country in the world.
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If they wanted more information from the two terrorist I would think they should have used non lethal means to extract them from their SUV when on the run afterwards
I know it may sound a little stupid to say .
But what if they were with a larger group of terrorism that if they were alive would lead to stopping more slaughter .
Tear gas ,Rubber bullets ,Stun Guns .
Vehicles blocking them …you know that sort of thing .
The police were caught in the heat of the moment and used what forces they deemed necessary
I believe their is also a great electrical charge they have access to that can disable s moving vehicle
anyhow just thinking they would have needed them alive to question then before hanging them or …
Im glad they are dead but
what if it did more harm than good BH killing them first ?
so I’m thinking there is zero useful information anyway on the phones noe after this much the passing
the terrorist are not that dumb about
internet dealings