Apple vs the FBI

[mornelithe]

Zkuq said:

The FBI isn't even doing this to solve a crime. It's just petty politics to get more power in the future, that's all. See for yourself.

And as for this not being a backdoor, yeah, it's not. It's practically opening the front door unless you specifically got a stronger lock on it.

mornelithe said:
As far as I understand, this is a particular phone we're talking about, and that Apple would retain the tech used to hack this...persons phone. The FBI went through the process of obtaining a warrant, Apple should acquiesce. Of course, Apple's really good at skirting the grey lines of legality, what with exploiting markets w/ lax labor laws, and using shell companies to avoid paying the rightful amount in taxes they owe.

I guarantee you if this happens once, it's going to happen countless other times as well. Sooner or later it will be used like warrants, i.e. even when investigating lesser crimes.

I guarantee you if it's possible to hack, it's only a matter of time before others do it anyway.  So, you're simply prolonging the inevitable.  Also, the personal guaruntee's of people online, don't really matter much in a court.  The American public determined they didn't want the Government collecting data, and required the authorities obtain specific warrants for these types of things, the FBI got the necessary warrant.