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In reply to the discussion: Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)14. Bullshit. A phone is just a digital filing cabinet.
Information needed for prosecution should always be available except to the uber-Libertarian mindset.
Warrants are issued all the time for personal information. A phone is no different.
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The wording of this makes it sound like Apple can hack it current iPhones. It cannot.
FailureToCommunicate
Feb 2016
#5
"I guarantee that once it's written, within 6 months, you'll see versions of it everywhere."
Javaman
Feb 2016
#9
This is not a question of civil liberties. It's a question of searching for evidence after a crime.
randome
Feb 2016
#25
I believe a mass killer sort of forfeits his/her right to full Constitutional privileges.
randome
Feb 2016
#30
The FBI position is that contacts and messages could reveal other jihadists
William Seger
Feb 2016
#22
See my post above - the government has no compelling interest to force apple to open the phone
hueymahl
Feb 2016
#34
The NSA could probably get into it right now. But the FBI wants a tool to allow them to get into
LiberalArkie
Feb 2016
#27