Apple vows to resist FBI demand to crack iPhone linked to San Bernardino attacks

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Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company's chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December’s terrorist attacks in San Bernardino.

The clash reflects wider debates in the United States and elsewhere over security measures used by companies to protect users of devices such as smartphones — and how much leverage authorities should have to gain special access.

"We have great respect for the professionals at the FBI, and we believe their intentions are good", Apple chief executive Tim Cook said in a strongly worded open letter posted late Tuesday on the company’s website.

"Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help them", it continued. "But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone."
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I agree with Apple's CEO, Tim Cook. Companies should comply with warrants to the extent they are able to do so, but no company should be forced to deliberately weaken its products.
 
I'm all for complying with the warrants from the authorities. But I'm not for invading the privacy of normal every day people. Yes, what the people at the San Bernardino did was horrible. That doesn't mean that everyone else should be punished for what they did. Just because one or two people are bad, that doesn't mean that everybody is bad. If you pick a bushel of apples off a tree, you might find 1 or 2 apples in that bushel that are bad. You won't throw out the entire bushel of apples, would you? No. You just get rid of the 1 or 2 apples that are bad and keep the rest that are good. It's the same with people. Just because 1 or 2 people are bad, doesn't mean it's okay to assume that everybody else is going to follow that same path.
 
If anyone can defy the FBI, it would be either Apple or Microsoft. I hope they both team up and stomp this out.
 
I'm not sure if I trust Apple at resisting the government orders to unlock an iPhone.

This could be a fake announcement/show created by Apple and the government where Apple says they will protect our privacy from the government, so more criminals continue to use iPhones thinking Apple will protect their privacy. But, the government and Apple continues to secretly spy into criminals' smartphone history, and data without the criminals knowing.

I think the government does not want criminals to use more secure smartphones like the Turing Phone, Blackphone, Security and Privacy Apps like TOR, and other more secure phones from other companies because the government would have a harder time hacking alternative security-branded smartphones.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I'm not sure if I trust Apple at resisting the government orders to unlock an iPhone.

This could be a fake announcement/show created by Apple and the government where Apple says they will protect our privacy from the government, so more criminals continue to use iPhones thinking Apple will protect their privacy. But, the government and Apple continues to secretly spy into criminals' smartphone history, and data without the criminals knowing.

I think the government does not want criminals to use more secure smartphones like the Turing Phone, Blackphone, Security and Privacy Apps like TOR, and other more secure phones from other companies because the government would have a harder time hacking alternative security-branded smartphones.
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Anyone is making cell phones today, a person could make their own with incredible encryption on it.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I'm not sure if I trust Apple at resisting the government orders to unlock an iPhone.

This could be a fake announcement/show created by Apple and the government where Apple says they will protect our privacy from the government, so more criminals continue to use iPhones thinking Apple will protect their privacy. But, the government and Apple continues to secretly spy into criminals' smartphone history, and data without the criminals knowing.

I think the government does not want criminals to use more secure smartphones like the Turing Phone, Blackphone, Security and Privacy Apps like TOR, and other more secure phones from other companies because the government would have a harder time hacking alternative security-branded smartphones.
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Well, if this is a publicity stunt, it's probably one of the most impressive ones that has happened this decade. I don't know whether the justice system would accept taking part in this. That would imply the trial is fake, and I'm pretty sure that would be illegal.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Anyone is making cell phones today, a person could make their own with incredible encryption on it.
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People can also load their own custom ROM which can be more secure and private operating systems than the default pre-installed ROM which come installed with regular Android and Linux based smartphones. There are also some custom ROM which come built-in with Encryption apps, and services for more security.

It is also possible to setup some smartphones with SD Card slots to install the Custom ROM and Storage partition onto a 8GB or larger MicroSD card, so users can quickly remove their data from their device to keep it in a safe place like at home, or destroy using a small fire to set their SD card on fire to melt their sd card.
 
It's really refreshing to see such a big company doing the right thing. Usually when companies get that big they just do whatever the government wants to avoid problems. I respect them taking a stand and doing the right thing.
 
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