| mornelithe said: Interesting take on this here: It's the county's phone, not the decedent. Also, the dead people have no rights to privacy: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/opinion/seeking-iphone-data-through-the-front-door.html |
"Moreover, Apple’s position on privacy seems at odds with its own strategy of encouraging customers to pay to store personal data on iCloud, which is also vulnerable to hackers."
I am not sure what he means by "hacking". But for his information, Apple is taking similar steps to make the iCloud encryption stronger, and if those steps go uninterrupted, iCloud backups decryption will be impossible in the near future, making the data in the cloud immune to FBI requests. It's not a matter of hypocrisy, it's just that "progression" takes time...
And everyone seems to conveniently ignore the fact that even if Apple do what the FBI wants, terrorism will not stop. As I said before, Terrorists don't even have to find alternative means of communications to carry out their plans. Concealing hidden messages in plain unecrypted readable English text can do the job just fine. Let alone other more complicated languages.
"But when you are the two companies whose operating systems handle more than 90 percent of mobile communications worldwide, you should be accountable for more than just sales."
But they are accountable for more than just sales...
Maybe the FBI and the gov. need to be more accountable for more than just carrying out investigations, like you know, presenting false evidence of WMD. Being allies with countries with clear atrocious human rights records, what is ISIS without the Wahhabi version of Islam that they push with the US ,indirect, help.
In more recent news, Google, Twitter, Facebook, & Microsoft to file court motions officially supporting Apple in FBI fight.
