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Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?"

From Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?"
Date 2016-02-17 08:55 -0600
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On 2016-02-17 14:27:50 +0000, DFS said:

> On 2/17/2016 8:56 AM, Ezekiel wrote:
>> Interesting headline -
>> 
>> "Whose side are they on? Apple REFUSES court order to unlock dead
>> Islamic terrorist's iPhone found after husband and wife's San Bernardino
>> attack"
>> 
>> I'm all for privacy but I'm not a purist. Every law abiding citizen deserves
>> privacy but there needs to be some threshold where the greater good should
>> prevail. When you're an Islamic terrorist who killed a bunch of people in an
>> attack then you've forfeited that right. Defining that threshold is a
>> problem.
> 
> 
> If you killed or even credibly threatened anyone with death I think you 
> crossed that threshold.
> 
> Tim Cook says the FBI has asked him to build a version of iOS with a 
> backdoor.  I agree he should refuse that.  But in this case, if Apple 
> can unlock that phone I say have the FBI turn the phone over to Apple 
> and let them do it and expose the data, then destroy the phone.  Or 
> have Apple unlock it and give it back to the FBI without disclosing how 
> it was unlocked.
> 
> 
> http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/full-text-apple-ceo-tim-cook-s-open-letter-fbi-n519886 
> 

I think the warrant requires that Apple provide software to keep the 
phone from bricking itself if the feds make too many tries at accessing 
the data.  The feds did ask for an iOS version with a backdoor but 
don't have any court order requiring that.

-- 
Lloyd
from the Macbook 12"

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Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-17 08:56 -0500
  Putz! John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 06:01 -0800
  Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-02-17 09:27 -0500
    Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-17 09:46 -0500
      Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-02-21 12:39 -0500
    Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 08:55 -0600
    Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 13:28 -0800
      Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-02-17 20:37 -0500
  Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-17 19:22 +0000
    Re: Interesting headline - "Whose side are they on?" "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-02-17 16:09 -0500

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