Personal privacy v national security

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Boreas

While true, I don't see this as particularly persuasive. It's a little like saying we should get rid of birth control pills because it's not as if unintended pregnancies will be more prevalent than they were before the pill was invented.

It's like you saying that. But you did modify it by saying "a little". It's considerably less than "a little"...IMO nothing like it at all. The false equivalency flag is unfurled and flying at full staff. The big garrison size Sunday flag as well.

Did we have all this tearing of hair, wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth over the back door in every smartphone in the world prior to late 2014? December 2014, when Apple released it's latest effort to wipe out the competition...the IOS with the deep encryption? Outside of the hysterical privacy geeks with no life...we did not.

Cook knew exactly what he was doing. He knew the new IOS would hamstring law enforcement from developing evidence in terrorism cases, gangbang cases, child abduction cases...almost any criminal enterprise where evidence could be found in a smartphone, which is pretty much every criminal enterprise these days. And Cook didn't give a shit on Steve Job's grave for anything but his fucking market share and finally crawling up over Google in the smartphone market.

Mr. Cook is a real first rate, second rate guy.