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San Bernardino Police: Reasonably Good Chance Nothing Of Value On Shooter's iPhone (businessinsider.com)
San Bernardino police chief, Jarrod Burguan, who was part of the investigation into the two shooters who killed 14 during a mass shooting event last December, says there probably isn't any useful information on Syed Farook's government-issued phone. "I'll be honest with you, I think there is a reasonably good chance that there is nothing of any value on the phone," Burguan said. Burguan is siding with the FBI, though, which is seeking to compel Apple to build custom software to allow law enforcement to extract data from Farook's phone. "This is an effort to leave no stone unturned in the investigation," Burguan told NPR. "To allow this phone to sit there, and not make an effort to get the information or the data that may be inside of that phone is simply not fair to the victims or the families."
Even if there's no worthwhile information, the phone is still of immense value to those who want to take what's left of our privacy. You know, the same people who have us taking off our shoes in airports, in a security theatre exercise that would be farcical if it wasn't doing such a good job of making compliance with authoritarian demands a knee-jerk reflex among the citizenry.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Why is it "not fair"?
You know who did it.
You know why they did it.
You know that they are now dead.
Why would it be more "fair" to the families of the victims to destroy the security of everyone using an iPhone?
And yes, the tech would leak out. And be abused. Today "terrorists" and tomorrow everyone.
NOTHING will help the dead or their families. Playing that card is craven and crass.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
One of the world's largest companies should have to inconvenience itself a little because there is a serious crime that needs investigation? Sounds like the judge in the Kesha case.
Don't get me wrong, I think Apple is in the right here, but that's a silly argument.
When someone thinks about this issue with any clarity, all of the claptrap about us having to give up our freedoms for security is only the issue on the face of it.
We have a faction of government that wants to turn America and the world into a 1984 esque police state and influence the technology to where government and corporations have all the power and the individuals have none. (basically they want the world to go back to 1965, socially and business wise.)
No matter what terrorist attack happens, it is not an excuse to sign away any of our constitutional rights. There needs to be another definition of idiot in the dictionary, defined as anyone who can be scared into giving up their rights by threat of hypothetical slippery slope logical fallacies.
Apple is 100% right to tell the FBI or any other 3 letter agency wanting them to install back doors or anything vaguely going in that direction, to get bent and stick it where the sun does not shine. They are right to do this and then take any communication trying to compel them to betray their customer's trust like that.. and make it public. Just exactly what Tim Cook did.
Think for yourselves people, stop listening to Fox news and Donald Trump and Republican assholes. Seriously, THINK FOR YOURSELVES!