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Re: Apple still fighting FBI/Justice Dept

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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
news:9c3a0b94-ec77-4ccf-8597-06021cf3343f@googlegroups.com...
> ABC News reported tonight that Apple is asking a judge to vacate his
> order to write software to access a phone.  Apple said there are safety
> risk issues involved if they did so.

> ABC interviewed a congressman who said "Apple has blood on their hands".

Just the usual mindless rhetoric you'd expect from
a congresscritter who doesn't have a fucking clue.

> However, it is not at all clear that information on
> this particular phone would prevent a terrorist attack.

Indeed it is very unlikely indeed that it does given that
those two deliberately destroyed the burner phones.

Yes, its possible that they stuffed up and that there is
some data on that phone that they managed to leave
after the last icloud backup that the FBI has access to,
but its very unlikely indeed.

> Seems that in this particular case, Apple has a strong argument.

Particularly on what they can be required to do if
they do what this particular court has required them
to do, and with Cook's argument about the danger
of implementing that sort of back door to iphones,
particularly if it gets into the hands of other than
the govt. And plenty don't want to see the govt be
able to do anything they like to any iphone either. 

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Apple still fighting FBI/Justice Dept hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-25 15:47 -0800
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