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Arizona County Attorney To Ditch iPhones Over Apple Dispute With FBI (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Apple's refusal to help the FBI unlock an iPhone 5c used by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino, California attack on Dec. 2 has prompted the Maricopa County attorney's office in Arizona to ban providing new iPhones to its staff. 'Apple's refusal to cooperate with a legitimate law enforcement investigation to unlock a phone used by terrorists puts Apple on the side of terrorists instead of on the side of public safety,' Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said in a statement Montgomery described as a corporate public relations stunt Apple's positioning of its refusal to cooperate on privacy grounds. On the other hand, I suspect Apple's public refusal to decrypt, and Tim Cook's strong words in favor of user privacy, have probably triggered an opposite reaction among many would-be phone buyers.
Apple DOES cooperate, when they are able to do things like pull data out of iCloud backups.
What they are being asked to do is write a custom OS for free. To fix a mistake the FBI made.
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San Bernadino County didn't use a properly applied MDM solution. If they had, this wouldn't be an issue. One would hope that this is a wake-up call for similar organizations.
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False. My father owns a lock/locksmithing and safe business. He has been hired by police to open locks, and many times refused for a multitude of reasons. He is still in business.
I wouldn't recommend iphones to anyone but certainly not for this reason. The whole notion of lumping Apple in with this classification of criminal is just batshit crazy.
I've noticed that, starting today, there is a drumbeat of "Apple is siding with the Terrists!" in news-story after news-story.
The Farce is strong in this issue.
Well if you want to talk about idiocy, look at how Maricopa County got it's name. It comes from the name of an Indian tribe who called themselves Piipash, but when the conquistadors came in they heard about them from another tribe who called them "Kokmalik'op" which means "enemies in the big mountains", but since the Spanish (as in from Spain; not Mexicans who didn't exist at the time) tend to mangle every single word that doesn't include phonographs in their own language (which itself has a relatively small set of phonograms) they rendered "kokmalikop" as "maricopa" (sounds like "mod-ee-copa") that's what we call them today, and how Maricopa County has its namesake.
Apple has not bee served with a warrant or a subpoena. They have been served with a writ of assistance.
While I agree with you about Joe, you might want to read the article and see that it's the county *attorney*, not the county sheriff. In fact Arpaio's not mentioned in the article at all.