Personal privacy v national security

barbara · #1 02-18-2016, 09:45 AM

Apple is resisting creating a back door for the iPhone which is a request from the FBI.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/us/san...r-phone-apple/

icenine · #2 02-18-2016, 09:50 AM

I think Apple should at least let the FBI see if there is information about the possibility of another terrorist link on that phone. Some of those people killed probably were Apple customers too.

CarlV · #3 02-18-2016, 09:56 AM

Apple should remove the information and hand it over. If Apple has no employee they can trust do do it then they should let somebody who can do it. This is about innocent lives and not keeping next I-phone's features a secret.

Carl

donquixote99 · #4 02-18-2016, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by icenine

I think Apple should at least let the FBI see if there is information about the possibility of another terrorist link on that phone. Some of those people killed probably were Apple customers too.

They can't do that without cracking their own 'uncrackable' security. They actually may not be able to. But if they can, all the iphones will no longer be 'uncrackable.'

Boreas · #5 02-18-2016, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

They can't do that without cracking their own 'uncrackable' security. They actually may not be able to. But if they can, all the iphones will no longer be 'uncrackable.'

And then the government will get hacked (again) and all sorts of people will be in your phone.

donquixote99 · #6 02-18-2016, 10:09 AM

Unless the FBI is blowing smoke, the iphone is holding up....

MrPots · #7 02-18-2016, 10:10 AM

Once the back door is created and people are damaged by hacking and identity theft, will the government step up and make them whole again since it was their doing?

No they won't. I'm with Apple on this. If 30,000 deaths a year is the price of guns, the occasional terrorist attack is the price of privacy.

CarlV · #8 02-18-2016, 10:12 AM

I think that "it's uncrackable" is total BS to make people think their phone is secure. I am sure there are people in Russia and Romania who could crack it. That is unless they are BSing the whole thing to begin with.

Carl

Dondilion · #9 02-18-2016, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

They can't do that without cracking their own 'uncrackable' security. They actually may not be able to. But if they can, all the iphones will no longer be 'uncrackable.'

So it is also about marketing.

CarlV · #10 02-18-2016, 10:14 AM

I would never in a million years think my cell is secure no matter who makes it.

Carl