Sorry if this isn't the correct place for this but it needs to be posted
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Doanld Trumps wants you to boycott apple
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LOL. if the US want to be out of digitial technology there goverenment is runing fast at a brick wall.
All the tech gaints could move to china or even tasmania....no one would care.
Glad to see how they are standing up for encryption. Everything they said seems to do nothing but benefit everyone of their customers.
I remember when the news was all over that shooting, and for days they were saying nothing on the shooters phones or computers was encrypted. Same thing for the Paris shooters. I'm also not sure if I believe Apple on it's security and not spying on customers, but if it is true, they are going to be in alot of trouble over this letter. When a company or individual gets a national security request, they are not even allowed to say anything about the request. They are going to have to release another bullshit phone just to pay for the lawyers on this one.
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I'm really happy to see Apple taking a stand on this issue. The government won't listen to its own citizens or the top experts in the field, but maybe it will listen to its country's most profitable company.
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this almost makes me want to buy a iphone to support apple. just wish that i could have more control over my device. apple just added the ability to change your keyboard.
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I was actually about to post this in the news section. Really important step for Apple to take and I really hope other companies chime in. I would also really like to see @wendell @DeusQain and @Logan to discuss this on the next episode of The Tek.
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they probably should do a separate thing on it. like with the rant:30 and intel.
At the same time not having that kind of control allows apple to specify very strict security protocols. Sure android has encryption too but if one bad program was done wrong and exploited then you have a whole new mess and Google didn't even do it. I get you wanna have all the fun control and make the tweaks but you are also trusting that everyone who wrote those tweaks doesn't have malicious code or intent
true, but it could be like the app store and apple verifys all tweaks. if they do it, then if will be something you have to op-in for. even when you jailbreak your device, you have unlock it to disable the encryption.
There are ways for everything. One thing I thought of was what if Apple actually gave them a new firmware and instructions to flash it because remember these things are usually done when the phone actually runs. So give them the modified firmware BUT require them to use DFU mode for the flash, I'm sure Apple can argue some cryptographic value has to match between a computer value and a store one
the government wouldnt even know how to use google to find out what dfu mode is.
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Which means they will follow whatever instructions they are given for flashing. See perfect solution. Throw in a legal disclaimer somewhere in size two font that this may erase all data on the iPhone and you are good
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yep. they just need to to put that in 1 pixel at the very bottom right of a webpage with the instructions.
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I may be reaching here, but I bet the fact that Tim Cook is gay and grew up in Alabama in the 60's and 70's taught him the value of privacy and reticence, even when you haven't done anything wrong.
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Plus one point Apple.
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Only problem I see with this whole Apple vs. The Gov. thing is... well, everything. There's no way Apple can win in the long run. They need more dollars, and more companies need to back them up. So, yes, +1 to Apple, but also -1 to to all the big time companies that arent coming to their aid.
Apple is the largest and therefore the most powerful company in America. They would put up a much better fight than you're giving them credit for. Remember, they have billions upon billions of dollars in cash they can tie up in the legal system for essentially decades.
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Ah, yes, I agree, Apple has tons of money. But the U.S. gov has more power. They can easily make up for the lack of tax dollars with the sheer amount of brute force they can thro into it.
If Apple loses this war, it won't be in this battle. At least, I don't think so. It'll be on something bigger; a big time terrorist attack, or the potential to capture some supposedly important terrorist organization. And the way they'll lose is by the government and the media teaming up to crusade against whatever The Next Big Thing is. They'll probably paint Apple as the 'bad guys' who could end the war if only they would give us (the gov.) a little bit of data.
I hope that makes sense. In short, yes, Apple is strong. But the government ultimately has more power. And they have far more political tact to get there purposes accomplished.
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i mean, there is no way it will stand, not only is it stupid old and not applicable to the situation, but the writs act allows companies to object if the request is to burdensome or too costly, which would be pretty easy to argue with creating a backdoor to their devices. I almost feel like this is just a PR stunt so Apple can be seen as defending consumer privacy while american companies' image have been shattered world wide in terms of respect for consumers privacy. Most likely they are already doing this behind closed doors for whenever someone says: national security. In which cases the general consensus in courts seems to be not only does the government not have to tell the company or the general public why they need it, but the agency doesn't even need to tell the judge, its a free pass. Eventually this will likely be struck down and its going to be like, "oh look, Apple and the US Government respects our right to privacy" while they are secretly doing it for national security already.
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