The only difference between a warrant and a hall pass at school is that the hall pass is harder to get. Oh, and the severity of the consequences for being caught without one.
I’m not sure how the individual would respond if someone close to him or her were the victim of a crime and the case might depend on the ability to access a phone. Easy to say, unless it’s you. We deal with a lot of victims. We talk to the people it’s actually happened to.
Now, Mike, it would be a shame if anything bad happened to the writers. Or their families. Or their pets. We wouldn't want that, now, would we?
Haven't you read about the U.S. and U.K. repeatedly complaining before World War II about the Germans and Japanese "going dark" through the use of Enigma and Purple? Congress passed two declarations banning encryption, the Germans and the Japanese dutifully complied, and the war ended as abruptly as it had started. Problem solved.
Sure, another site might put together one or two good posts or a definitive explainer, but reading Techdirt every day was like taking a college course on the issues with every new post helping me understand a new aspect of what I'd learned previously.
Wait, I thought this was supposed to be fun. Now you tell us its educational. There goes the neighborhood.
Exactly one month ago, the FBI was all "we can't look the survivors in the eye, or ourselves in the mirror, if we don't follow this lead." Now they're like, "Hey survivors, just settle for an unproven hack of the terrorist's iMessages and forget we ever asked for access to the rest of the data on the phone, mkay?"
Nathan Ballard, an adviser for the union, said that while officers support efforts to bring transparency — including having officers wear body cameras — the union will oppose legislation seeking “to undo the California Supreme Court’s ruling that protects police officers’ privacy interests.”
Maybe they could ask local business Apple to encrypt those records to ensure that their "privacy interests" remain protected.
Because if they're going to treat their readers like this, then they're effectively treating everyone like this, and all for the lousy price of $0.0001 per read.
I would have given Mike my two cents on this issue, but it apparently isn't worth even that.
To it, Apple is the obstacle standing between it and the wealth of information it [wants the public to] imagine[] might possibly be on that phone.
A few edits for accuracy. The FBI knows there is nothing on this phone. They just want the power to go after every other phone. Public perception is just a pawn in the FBI's eyes.
So is the takeaway that we are supposed to put backdoors in airplanes? Unless they are D.B. Cooper—and maybe even then—the hijacking problem will be solved.
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