It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased newspaper with other people. What's next?
Well, I guess you can substitute anything else that currently has some sort of control on it's poseession and/or use:
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased firearms with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased explosives with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased drugs with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased smallpox virus with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased plutonium with other people.
So banning sharing newspapers isn't the thin end of the wedge, the precedent for banning other things later. Governments have been banning (or restricting via requiring licenses/permits) the sharing of things for, well, forever.
That TD ask some other like-minded sites, EmptyWheel, Popehat, etc, to COPY this story to their sites so that if a supoena with a gag order and a requirement to remove this story arrives...
Login information is circumstantial evidence. It is not proof of anything apart from whose login details were used, not who actually did the logging in.
If he has to resort to legal suppression of free speech to prove he has a big dick, rather than just showing off his dick, then logic would conclude that he must have the dick the size of a newt.
The problem with your approach tho is that if you had, say, a group of 50 people, this would mean you'd have to encrypt a single message 49 times, once for each member (apart from yourself).
Encryption is quite an expensive process, running encryption across say a 1MB jpeg 49 times would be very expensive.
Having a unique encryption key just for that group chat, with each group member having a copy, means a single encryption process for every member to receive an encrypted message.
One of the elements to this case by the FBI is that performing this work is not overly burdensome on Apple, because writing code is something apple already does, it has the staff and technical expertise in place to do the compelled work.
However, if Apple has to hire new employees to do this work, wouldn't that demolish that argument? The mere fact that they would have to hire new staff would counter the "already in place staff and skills" aspect of the argument at the very least.
And if Apple has to start firing highly-skilled engineers, with decades of experience, or engage in litigation of those same engineers to force them to honour their contracts and do that work, again, burdensome?
And what does it do with that tracking data? Upload it via unsecure http to the vendor's website for onsale to advertisers and availability (since it's now a business record) for government requests for users surfing habits?
But doesn't that only matter if you are on autopilot? If you are in manual flight mode, what relevance does the sat nav system have if you are not navigating by it?
I can see it mattering if you are on autopilot, because in autopilot you've said "navigate to point X (or waypoints X, Y, Z, etc.) as provided by the SatNav". So if you change the SatNav remotely to change where point X is, I can see the autopilot taking you to a place you weren't expecting.
But if you turn off the autpilot and use another navigation method to determine what course to manually steer the plane in (either a portable SatNav, or visual navigation using a map, ruler, compass, visual waypoints, or just "hey, I see a mountain over there, I'll just fly into it"), then does it matter if they override the SatNav?
Nah, since that doesn't exist it's not possible for it to be on the phone.
However, what we might find is a secret government report detailing an investigation into what that thing on his head actually is. My suspicion is that it's alien life.
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It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased firearms with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased explosives with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased drugs with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased smallpox virus with other people.
It's ridiculous to ban people from sharing their legally purchased plutonium with other people.
So banning sharing newspapers isn't the thin end of the wedge, the precedent for banning other things later. Governments have been banning (or restricting via requiring licenses/permits) the sharing of things for, well, forever.
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Re: Not necessary to create a Group Key
Encryption is quite an expensive process, running encryption across say a 1MB jpeg 49 times would be very expensive.
Having a unique encryption key just for that group chat, with each group member having a copy, means a single encryption process for every member to receive an encrypted message.
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However, if Apple has to hire new employees to do this work, wouldn't that demolish that argument? The mere fact that they would have to hire new staff would counter the "already in place staff and skills" aspect of the argument at the very least.
And if Apple has to start firing highly-skilled engineers, with decades of experience, or engage in litigation of those same engineers to force them to honour their contracts and do that work, again, burdensome?
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The VoIP app is just data travelling along the data service provided by the telcos.
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I can see it mattering if you are on autopilot, because in autopilot you've said "navigate to point X (or waypoints X, Y, Z, etc.) as provided by the SatNav". So if you change the SatNav remotely to change where point X is, I can see the autopilot taking you to a place you weren't expecting.
But if you turn off the autpilot and use another navigation method to determine what course to manually steer the plane in (either a portable SatNav, or visual navigation using a map, ruler, compass, visual waypoints, or just "hey, I see a mountain over there, I'll just fly into it"), then does it matter if they override the SatNav?
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However, what we might find is a secret government report detailing an investigation into what that thing on his head actually is. My suspicion is that it's alien life.
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Therefore you must be referring to something outside the article. Does this DA have some sort of history of perjury?
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Level 1) Not allowed to get brazilians, must let the hair grow.
Level 2) Forced to have sex with ugly people
Level 3) NO SEX.
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