Yea, yea everyone sites that clause, but there's two things about its use in this case with which I take issue:
1) It clearly caveats "lawfully authorized" without being clear about whether they mean the agents or their actions have to be lawfully authorized. In this situation I think there is a case to be made that the agents may not have been acting in a lawfully authorized fashion, because they were stepping beyond their authority in their initial request to Apple.
2) This clause also seems to be only intended to apply to government computers/networks.
I've looked into lots of these APIs myself, as well as their license agreements for the developer accounts required to use them. Twitter and Facebook's aren't any more capable of protecting user data from being harvested by app creators. The privacy of your friend's list and its spidery web of interconnects to other site users is protected by the honor system only.
If you really think that the general public is capable of keeping their electronic communications private from the NSA using present-day civilian tech...
No, you're missing my point entirely. I'm not suggesting they can do any of that without help. I'm blaming you personally for being complicit by using Skype instead of setting a good example. I'm in fact accusing you of being culpable simply because you're going along with it willingly, instead of doing your best as one of the few who knows better to guide the sheep (these friends and family who you claim are so important to you) away from the slaughterhouse.
And, just in case you're wondering if the fact I got downmodded to "troll" validates or justifies your stance on this matter; it doesn't. It just proves you're following the herd, and even defending their murderers... while followiong them right onto the killing floor.
The problem is that they're all cheating as a matter of course, or at least such a large majority of them that there's little effective difference one way or another.
And its hardly the only thing they all cheat on either; You'd be shocked if you realized just how many IT companies never, as a rule, pay their employees overtime, and how few IT workers realize they're actually entitled to it, despite their employers' claims that the employment contract they signed supersedes state law.
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If you are saying this about Keurig but you're still using Windows, you're a hypocrite.
OOOH! Instant coffee slam! BURRRRN!
Is there an interpretation in which they are credibly following their own mission statement?
An incredible one?
hoarders don't just have ONE.
came here to post basically this sentiment, you beat me to it; I was gonna say I'd wager they have at least two.
Yes, confirmed. Compilers/assemblers also impossible to do legally under this law. I hope you didn't throw out your abacus.
They'd been trying to make MP3s illegal for almost 2 decades now. Suddenly this bill makes a lot more sense.
+1 funny
But if you use this to masturbate, does it feel like a stranger?
... immediately everyone flames them.
It makes me wonder how much further they'd go without any air filtration at all.
It doesn't, but its irrelevant to the issue. Obtaining the warrant in the first place would have required that they establish probable cause.
I guess we shouldn't have been surprised by this.
Now, would you kindly stop being a Hillary.
Ok, now THAT is a metaphor. GG
Except that neither of those are facts, they're both subjective statements; a.k.a. opinions.
Wrong. A simile would be "Hillary is like a cunt." F-
Your English teacher would be ashamed.
Yea, yea everyone sites that clause, but there's two things about its use in this case with which I take issue:
1) It clearly caveats "lawfully authorized" without being clear about whether they mean the agents or their actions have to be lawfully authorized. In this situation I think there is a case to be made that the agents may not have been acting in a lawfully authorized fashion, because they were stepping beyond their authority in their initial request to Apple.
2) This clause also seems to be only intended to apply to government computers/networks.
I.A.N.A.L.
Well, also, Apple's engineers probably already have a pretty good guess as to how a previous-generation iPhone was hacked.
Except those are both metaphors. You fail at facts as well as vocabulary.
Title says it all. They should simply sue the FBI because it was illegal for them to subvert the device's security measures in the first place.
Should have hired me instead, suckers!
I'm amused.
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I've looked into lots of these APIs myself, as well as their license agreements for the developer accounts required to use them. Twitter and Facebook's aren't any more capable of protecting user data from being harvested by app creators. The privacy of your friend's list and its spidery web of interconnects to other site users is protected by the honor system only.
If you really think that the general public is capable of keeping their electronic communications private from the NSA using present-day civilian tech...
No, you're missing my point entirely. I'm not suggesting they can do any of that without help. I'm blaming you personally for being complicit by using Skype instead of setting a good example. I'm in fact accusing you of being culpable simply because you're going along with it willingly, instead of doing your best as one of the few who knows better to guide the sheep (these friends and family who you claim are so important to you) away from the slaughterhouse.
And, just in case you're wondering if the fact I got downmodded to "troll" validates or justifies your stance on this matter; it doesn't. It just proves you're following the herd, and even defending their murderers... while followiong them right onto the killing floor.
The problem is that they're all cheating as a matter of course, or at least such a large majority of them that there's little effective difference one way or another.
And its hardly the only thing they all cheat on either; You'd be shocked if you realized just how many IT companies never, as a rule, pay their employees overtime, and how few IT workers realize they're actually entitled to it, despite their employers' claims that the employment contract they signed supersedes state law.