DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com)

An anonymous reader writes from an article posted on iDownloadBlog: The DoJ is demanding that Apple create a special version of iOS with removed security features that would permit the FBI to run brute-force passcode attempts on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5c. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has made public where he stands on the Apple vs. FBI case, which has quickly become a heated national debate. In the court papers, DoJ calls Apple's rhetoric in the San Bernardino standoff as "false" and "corrosive" because the Cupertino firm dared suggest that the FBI's court order could lead to a "police state." Footnote Nine of DoJ's filing reads:

"For the reasons discussed above, the FBI cannot itself modify the software on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone without access to the source code and Apple's private electronic signature. The government did not seek to compel Apple to turn those over because it believed such a request would be less palatable to Apple. If Apple would prefer that course, however, that may provide an alternative that requires less labor by Apple programmers."

As Fortune's Philip-Elmer DeWitt rightfully pointed out, that's a classic police threat. "We can do this [the] easy way or the hard way. Give us the little thing we're asking for -- a way to bypass your security software -- or we'll take [the] whole thing: your crown jewels and the royal seal too," DeWitt wrote. "With Apple's source code, the FBI could, in theory, create its own version of iOS with the security features stripped out. Stamped with Apple's electronic signature, the Bureau's versions of iOS could pass for the real thing," he added.

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So this year, you poor bastards over the pond have a difficult choice to make: are you going to elect a liar, or a conman, into the most powerful puppet seat in the World? Here’s a short analysis of the two front runners this time round, taken by turn:

Trump: inherited his money, he didn't make it.
Clinton: lied about Benghazi.
Trump: has no product.
Clinton: lied about lying.
Trump: has no property. He doesn't own any of the "Trump Towers".
Clinton: lied about where Chelsea was on 9/11.
Trump: has threatened to sue someone for $5bn after being called out on his inability to make good on a $5bn investment. Never followed through on either.
Clinton: lied about her namesake, whom she claimed to be named after... notwithstanding the fact that she was 6 when Sir Edmund climbed Everest, having not done ANYTHING of note beforehand, so either her parents were extremely negligent and she spent her first two years at elementary school being called "hey you" or she was lying.
Trump: founded a university that consistently ranks ROCK BOTTOM of any university in the world for quality of courses and average grade.
Clinton: lied about her trip to Bosnia, during which, she said, she landed under sniper fire. The fact is she landed at an international airport surrounded by armed guards and TELEVISION CAMERAS and accompanied by her daughter (after all, who wouldn't want to take their kids on a road trip to an active war zone, right?) and met the American ambassador on the tarmac.
Trump: bemoans illegal immigrants yet knowingly attached his name to a building built by 200 Polish illegal immigrants.
Clinton: lied about her family's finances when they left the White House, saying they were dead broke. Sure, $12million is dead broke.
Trump: says he's self-funding his own campaign to the tune of $17million. OK, that's fine if you don't count the $7million LOAN he made to his campaign fund (no actual money, he thinks he's a bank, it's just a book entry on the campaign accounts), or the $12.5million in DONATIONS.
Clinton: says she's "just like you". OK. I'll buy that. Sure. I sent my kids to private school as well. And charge $200k for speaking engagements. And have a private jet.
Trump: claims Ted Cruz has a double passport. There's no such thing as a double passport.
Clinton: claimed she didn't use her private email server to store classified documents. THE FACTS do not reflect her claims, in fact they show that she not only stored said classified documents, she transmittted them then had her server wiped on the assumption that this would eradicate the evidence.