mornelithe said:
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You may wanna read what I said earlier in this very thread: "On the other hand, Google, Facebook, Windows 10 are legally obtaining more personal data than anyone else, and worse, it's their business model, but few people care. People are quick to scream "PRIVACY" on facebook while using Chrome. So is it really a big deal? Will Apple join the crowd and reverse their policies and make more money off their iPhones than they are making now?
Maybe the public actually trust those companies a lot more than the government, and that's justified, or maybe they just don't know what they are talking about."
Trump got morons supporting him left and right, but hey, that's their choice, we can't deny them their freedom of choice just because they are "morons". If consumers are morons, let them be? Isn't this what the discussion is really about after all?
And it seems to me that you think I am with Apple no question, which isn't true, read my earlier posts. I do believe that when the FBI wins this, nothing will really change. Terrorists will find a new way to do things and we are back to squar one. and Apple may just throw their principles out of the window, because who gives a fuck, and start mining their users data, like the rest of their competitors, and make some extra cash.
"If the Government is as crazy about getting their hands on this stuff as these tech giants would have you believe, then a few members of Apple/Twitter/Facebook etc.. having an 'accident' wouldn't phase them in the slightest. Hell, fucking Snowden is still alive for christ sakes. Furthermore, in the face of such a lunatic Government, doesn't it stand to reason that you create this tool which is then sheltered by layer upon layer of law/precedent from being used except in cases such as this where a very very narrow set of criteria have been met?"
The US government isn't Apple's only concern. If this doesn't go the way Apple want it to go, they'll have to deal with crazy regimes making crazier demands that probably were made in the past and were responsible for Apple's decision to push their encryption plans further and faster. This isn't about just this case, this isn't about just the US.
