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I enjoy looking at US issues as reported in foreign media because it verifies my opinion that a lot of what occurs in this country is divorced from reality. I not talking about the minor issues of the GOP Congressional leadership refusing to accept that American voters have twice elected Obama as President, that just politics and racism.
This conflict between the FBI and Apple is absurd. The FBI and the Court are demanding that a corporation violate US law that prohibits hacking into other people’s devises. Apple doesn’t own the phone involved, they manufactured it. More than a decade after 9/11 the government should have hired people to break into Smartphones.
Kryten left a link to an Australian’s opinion of this mess which is short and to the point – the death and injuries weren’t caused by an iPhone.
The CBC provides a source for information about this and some the talking points: this isn’t about one phone as the FBI claims; this warrant was issued publicly, rather than being sealed, to pressure Apple.
If the government needs this capability, the government should develop this capability. The government is ordering Apple to do something no one knows for sure can be done.
February 24, 2016 40 Comments
