Thank you Captain Obvious for explaining what everybody already knew. The point is not whether the information exists, it's whether law enforcement should be able to get it without a warrant.
Why don't you put your efforts into explaining something useful, like why the public shouldn't expect this basic legal check procedure to be used before accessing info that most people would prefer to be kept private.
Because it's very common boilerplate in lots of widely used services. If there was a serious concern with this particular service's TOS, there would be a lot of well known problems with all the other services that say the same thing. But there isn't, so it's not freakout worthy.
I was pretty sympathetic for this guy right 'til the end. Now I'm madder at him than I am at Chase. If you're happy to accept this nonsense as an appropriate response to terrorism then you're already well on the way to losing the fight.
The whole driver of this issue is that Apple prevents brute-forcing by limiting the amount of attempts that can be made to ten before deleting the encryption key. That's what the FBI was trying to force Apple to bypass. It's almost like you haven't read a single thing about this story until today...
Offers up a believable explanation ("It stimulated creative people around the world to see what they might be able to do.") and follows up straight away with an outright lie ("...the San Bernardino case was not about trying to send a message or set a precedent; it was and is about fully investigating a terrorist attack.") that basically everyone but the FBI admits is false.
" What they REALLY just did is announce to the world that Apple's security isn't actually secure. It's going to cost Apple a lot of money."
How is this any different to all the other times vulnerabilities are found and patched in ALL phone's (not just iPhones). Did they all cost the manufacturers a lot of money too? Why do you think this one's so different?
"I'm even less fond of paying $5 for a soda and another $5 for a bag of popcorn. In most theaters, I can't get a beer or real food with my movie"
Like Geno0wl said, you can legitimately bitch about the crazy prices but I wish everyone would quit whining about the high prices and low quality of the food. Just don't buy it! No movie is long enough that you can't survive without sugary sustenance. If people bought less the prices would drop in response. If you absolutely must snack mid-movie, buy it elsewhere.
Personally many trips to the movies also involve a food and drinks at a bar beforehand with my wife or friends, which makes going to the movies a thoroughly enjoyable social experience you can't truly replicate at home.
Again you shown nothing but your hatred for Apple and gross lack of understanding of the larger picture. It's getting hard to tell if you're genuinely this ignorant or just trolling us all for lols (in which case, well done).
That you think this can all boil down to a simple one-line order is laughable. That you truely think all the "scaremongering" is just coming from Apple, as opposed to a wide range of people, is hard to believe.
Picking a politician is always about picking the least worst option, so don't think you're educating anyone here. But you'd have to have had your brain removed to not see how much more damage Trump would do to the US (and further abroad) compared to all the other candidates.
Says the muppet complaining about bias in an OPINION blog. A blog that gives you almost unlimited space to clearly articulate your opposite point of view and offer up any evidence that you're right and Mike's not. But you don't.
"You're a journalism professor, yet you believe this issue is "binary"?"
You offer no reason for why these two things are mutually exclusive. While many or even most topics have a middle ground between extreme points, this one does not.
"Do you teach your students that it's good journalism to say that complex issues are binary?"
You think it would be better to teach that no topic can be binary? That in itself would be an extreme position to take on a non-binary topic, making you a hypocrite.
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Why don't you put your efforts into explaining something useful, like why the public shouldn't expect this basic legal check procedure to be used before accessing info that most people would prefer to be kept private.
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It'll be interesting too recall all your anti-Apple bleating when something similar inevitably happens to an Android phone.
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How is this any different to all the other times vulnerabilities are found and patched in ALL phone's (not just iPhones). Did they all cost the manufacturers a lot of money too? Why do you think this one's so different?
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Like Geno0wl said, you can legitimately bitch about the crazy prices but I wish everyone would quit whining about the high prices and low quality of the food. Just don't buy it! No movie is long enough that you can't survive without sugary sustenance. If people bought less the prices would drop in response. If you absolutely must snack mid-movie, buy it elsewhere.
Personally many trips to the movies also involve a food and drinks at a bar beforehand with my wife or friends, which makes going to the movies a thoroughly enjoyable social experience you can't truly replicate at home.
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Every time I think you've demonstrated the true scale of your ignorance, you prove me wrong and outdo yourself.
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You blather on about scaremongering and yet you think this is what would happen to a former Apple employee.
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Not so surprising is your total dodge of the question. So again, why aren't the NSA doing this? Oh wait, they already told us...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/former-cyber-czar-says-nsa-could-crack-the-san-berna dino-shooters-phone/
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That you think this can all boil down to a simple one-line order is laughable. That you truely think all the "scaremongering" is just coming from Apple, as opposed to a wide range of people, is hard to believe.
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Says the muppet complaining about bias in an OPINION blog. A blog that gives you almost unlimited space to clearly articulate your opposite point of view and offer up any evidence that you're right and Mike's not. But you don't.
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You offer no reason for why these two things are mutually exclusive. While many or even most topics have a middle ground between extreme points, this one does not.
"Do you teach your students that it's good journalism to say that complex issues are binary?"
You think it would be better to teach that no topic can be binary? That in itself would be an extreme position to take on a non-binary topic, making you a hypocrite.
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