The constant failure to understand that the 1st evil of any great concern in any nation is the Government where 'power' attracts these evil humans like a SUPER MAGNET. There is an endless debate on if this evil is necessary and how much power it needs to have.
(Perhaps) unfortunately the answer to your first question is "Yes" and to the second "quite a lot actually."
Take Libya for example. Unquestionably Gaddafy was one of those evil humans attracted by the super magnet of power, and undoubtedly he plagued and murdered his citizens as intensely as any government anywhere.
However would you really prefer to live in the Libya of today to Libya under Gaddafy?
So when James Eagan Holmes shot up a theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and hurting 70, but was not a Muslim, that it why it was not called a terrorist attack.
Terrorism is by definition an attack in the furtherance of a cause.
James Egan Holmes had no cause - and promoted no political or religious agenda.
When white westerners commit attacks in the furtherance of a cause - eg the IRA - then it is rightly called terrorism.
When Jews commit attacks in furtherance of a cause eg the King David Hotel or the killing of Rabin then it IS called terrorism.
If a muslim commits a murder and doesn't make any claim that it is religiously motivated then we don't call it terrorism.
However in the recent cases of islamic terrorism the perpetrators have generally said themselves that their actions were motivated by ideology. When we call it terrorism we are simply believing what they say.
But the existence of such a key as a single point of failure for the entire Apple ecosystem is a really bad mistake - that we criticise mercilessly here when DRM vendors do it.
If the data is retrievable by Apple writing code - then it is retrievable by the DOJ or the NSA writing code.
IF it is retrievable then Apple messed up when they designed the phone in the first place.
If Apple was working to open source rules then they could simply turn round and say to the DOJ "The information is available - you do it - if you can".
The problem here is that Apple seems to have relied on Security by Obscurity.
uch as a government entity telling a business how to code and develop their products.
Actually that issue is not raised by this order.
The reason is imple.
If it is possible for Apple to comply with this order in respect of the particular device - then it is also possible for someone else to do it - in other words this particular cat is already out of the bag.
On the other hand if Apple cannot do it then they cannot comply.
What would be problematic would be for the government to order Apple to make sure that its future phones are crackable - in which case the issue that you raise would be valid - and very troubling - however it doesn't seem that that is what is being requested here.
Let me clue you into something that you should have learned in high-school. Words often have more than the literal meaning of their components.
This is true with "natural" words - however when you are dealing with words that have been devised to serve a political purpose then it makes sense to deconstruct them in order counter the purposes of their inventors.
And that is why Zakir Khan was correct in labeling it islamaphobia.
Actually it isn't - for two reasons
1) Islamaphobia isn't actually a thing. ( A phobia is an irrational fear - Islamaphobia is not necessarily a fear and it is definitely not irrational.)
2) Just because you have a name with historical Islamic associations doen't mean that you are a Muslim. Christian Bale isn't necessarily a Christian. Sam Harris has a name with Judeo Christian associations - he is an atheist.
Thise who label something like this as Islamaphobia are themselves trying to hijack the situation to advance a political cause. - You know what Christopher Hitchens (Not a Christian - despite his name) said about it.
This is an unfortunate decision, if not that surprising. But yet another reminder that perhaps the UK is a dangerous place for technology firms to do business these days.
How Naive!
Given the "Five Eyes" system, everything that can happen in ANY of US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can also happen in ALL of those places. Each of them has a different local profile of abuse but the overall effect is that the union of all the abuses can happen in the union of all the places.
So where else you gonna go?
Continental Europe?
Well there you've got all of the above - plus "right to be forgotten" and even more abusive collection societies (eg GEMA).
OK lets go to a small independent country - well any such country is at the mercy of US bullying so no joy there.
That just leaves China, Russia, India, maybe one or two of the larger S. American countries, Africa and the Islamic world. All of these have their own problems that have been well documented on this site. OK lets try outer space - well there was that "Space Oddity" incident on the ISS.
There have been reports that Twitter has started to censor criticism of Islam - so of course they have to make a gesture like this as a counterbalance.
Plus of course - as the article points out - by shutting down he terrorist linked accounts you also neuter the criticism/ridicule of the ideology behind it - and since Saudi Arabia shares the ideology its a win win for them.
I cannot imagine why the sheeple would allow this?
Because without it there would have to be toll booths and so your journey would also be interrupted and you would have to pay more!
Do you think it would be a good idea if Americans could walk into any shop in Canada and just take stuff for free?
(Disclaimer - I don't think toll road are a good idea - however the fee is collected - but if you have them you may as well collect the fee int he most appropriate way)
According to the lawsuit, something that could be considered child pornography somehow made its way past internal censors and ended up on the evening news.
Based on standard practice in law enforcement everyone who works at the station - AND everyone who watched the evening news - should now go onto the sex offenders register.
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Re: Re:
(Perhaps) unfortunately the answer to your first question is "Yes" and to the second "quite a lot actually."
Take Libya for example. Unquestionably Gaddafy was one of those evil humans attracted by the super magnet of power, and undoubtedly he plagued and murdered his citizens as intensely as any government anywhere.
However would you really prefer to live in the Libya of today to Libya under Gaddafy?
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Terrorism is by definition an attack in the furtherance of a cause.
James Egan Holmes had no cause - and promoted no political or religious agenda.
When white westerners commit attacks in the furtherance of a cause - eg the IRA - then it is rightly called terrorism.
When Jews commit attacks in furtherance of a cause eg the King David Hotel or the killing of Rabin then it IS called terrorism.
If a muslim commits a murder and doesn't make any claim that it is religiously motivated then we don't call it terrorism.
However in the recent cases of islamic terrorism the perpetrators have generally said themselves that their actions were motivated by ideology. When we call it terrorism we are simply believing what they say.
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Re: Re: Apple messed up
But the existence of such a key as a single point of failure for the entire Apple ecosystem is a really bad mistake - that we criticise mercilessly here when DRM vendors do it.
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Apple messed up
IF it is retrievable then Apple messed up when they designed the phone in the first place.
If Apple was working to open source rules then they could simply turn round and say to the DOJ "The information is available - you do it - if you can".
The problem here is that Apple seems to have relied on Security by Obscurity.
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Re: So?
There is an old name for this - it is called imperialism.
You are an unreconstructed imperialist.
Is your name really David?
Or is it Clive?
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US Marshals
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Re: There is another more problematic issue here
Actually that issue is not raised by this order.
The reason is imple.
If it is possible for Apple to comply with this order in respect of the particular device - then it is also possible for someone else to do it - in other words this particular cat is already out of the bag.
On the other hand if Apple cannot do it then they cannot comply.
What would be problematic would be for the government to order Apple to make sure that its future phones are crackable - in which case the issue that you raise would be valid - and very troubling - however it doesn't seem that that is what is being requested here.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The fatal flaw...
This is true with "natural" words - however when you are dealing with words that have been devised to serve a political purpose then it makes sense to deconstruct them in order counter the purposes of their inventors.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: The fatal flaw...
Actually it isn't - for two reasons
1) Islamaphobia isn't actually a thing. ( A phobia is an irrational fear - Islamaphobia is not necessarily a fear and it is definitely not irrational.)
2) Just because you have a name with historical Islamic associations doen't mean that you are a Muslim. Christian Bale isn't necessarily a Christian. Sam Harris has a name with Judeo Christian associations - he is an atheist.
Thise who label something like this as Islamaphobia are themselves trying to hijack the situation to advance a political cause. - You know what Christopher Hitchens (Not a Christian - despite his name) said about it.
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Just the UK?
How Naive!
Given the "Five Eyes" system, everything that can happen in ANY of US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can also happen in ALL of those places. Each of them has a different local profile of abuse but the overall effect is that the union of all the abuses can happen in the union of all the places.
So where else you gonna go?
Continental Europe?
Well there you've got all of the above - plus "right to be forgotten" and even more abusive collection societies (eg GEMA).
OK lets go to a small independent country - well any such country is at the mercy of US bullying so no joy there.
That just leaves China, Russia, India, maybe one or two of the larger S. American countries, Africa and the Islamic world. All of these have their own problems that have been well documented on this site. OK lets try outer space - well there was that "Space Oddity" incident on the ISS.
So - seriously - where ARE you going to go.
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Re: Birmingham
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The censorship is itself obscene
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Could it have something to do with this?
There have been reports that Twitter has started to censor criticism of Islam - so of course they have to make
a gesture like this as a counterbalance.
Plus of course - as the article points out - by shutting down he terrorist linked accounts you also neuter the criticism/ridicule of the ideology behind it - and since Saudi Arabia shares the ideology its a win win for them.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Foriegn Laws
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IF
This is simply an exercise in market power using artificial scarcity to jack up prices.
But then that is what media companies have been doing for 300+ years now it's not new.
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Re: Re: Foriegn Laws
Because without it there would have to be toll booths and so your journey would also be interrupted and you would have to pay more!
Do you think it would be a good idea if Americans could walk into any shop in Canada and just take stuff for free?
(Disclaimer - I don't think toll road are a good idea - however the fee is collected - but if you have them you may as well collect the fee int he most appropriate way)
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Foriegn Laws
Although perfectly happy to subject foriegn companies to US laws.
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The first rule of Super Bowl
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Re: What are other better options?
Just use direct transfer from your bank.
There is more choice of banks.
For international payments use transferwise
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In which case
Based on standard practice in law enforcement everyone who works at the station - AND everyone who watched the evening news - should now go onto the sex offenders register.
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