Your last comment reveals your ignorance of technology. Emails are, in general, not encrypted and a person's Internet service provider can provide all emails from their email server backups, anytime. I would be very surprised if the FBI does not already have all the recent emails sent by this perp for the last 6 months.
The problem is that the FBI, the courts, and our politicians, are in the same boat as you are --- insufficient understanding of technology; and that is why they are clueless as to the terrible repercussions if Apple or any other security systems development company, adheres to this court order to forced to create systems to break their security measures.
Perhaps you should read the above comments to educate yourself as to why the judge's order not only threatens all our privacy; it threatens all our security.
So you do not mind if your financial or banking records on your phone become open to any hacker in the future since determined hackers will find ways to make use of the new method of subverting encryption security that the government is trying to force Apple to create.
Are we to give up banking online, buying things online and go back to the methods of the early 1990s?
You are missing the point or, alternatively, you want us to become luddites -- returning to an earlier era.
Or, alternatively, all security firms will be forced to move operations out of the reach of the United States courts to wherever there exists a government with more horse sense than the U.S. FBI and courts have.
I grant that, perhaps, the FBI has no clue how treasonous and unconstitutional their actions, in effect, are.
It's not just government staffers who worry me. You assume that 100% of the people who work at Apple and at the Government will be 100% infallible and honest and not susceptible to coercion once this slave labor government-ordered back door to break into all Apple I-phones has been created.
I am, apparently, more skeptical than you are that such software, once created, will not be misused. Although, I like your idea about its forcing even stronger security - but then, once this government precedence is established, what keeps that from being subverted and who pays for this ongoing battle against our security, coming from government?
This court decision, if upheld will end U.S. leadership in technology. All people who want security in their devices will have to purchase from companies doing business in countries that allow secure technology to exist and do not demand open government access to all devices, which makes all our devices insecure. Our FBI and courts are anti-American in their efforts to make all our devices insecure and destroy U.S. leadership in technology.
The media, courts, FBI, and politicians are clueless on this issue. They not remotely understand the technical implications of this issue.
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To Whatever,
Your last comment reveals your ignorance of technology. Emails are, in general, not encrypted and a person's Internet service provider can provide all emails from their email server backups, anytime. I would be very surprised if the FBI does not already have all the recent emails sent by this perp for the last 6 months.
The problem is that the FBI, the courts, and our politicians, are in the same boat as you are --- insufficient understanding of technology; and that is why they are clueless as to the terrible repercussions if Apple or any other security systems development company, adheres to this court order to forced to create systems to break their security measures.
Re: Apple above the Law
Perhaps you should read the above comments to educate yourself as to why the judge's order not only threatens all our privacy; it threatens all our security.
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My prior comments were addressed to Whatever's comments and not to "Anonymous Anonymous Coward" whom I agree with.
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So you do not mind if your financial or banking records on your phone become open to any hacker in the future since determined hackers will find ways to make use of the new method of subverting encryption security that the government is trying to force Apple to create.
Are we to give up banking online, buying things online and go back to the methods of the early 1990s?
You are missing the point or, alternatively, you want us to become luddites -- returning to an earlier era.
Or, alternatively, all security firms will be forced to move operations out of the reach of the United States courts to wherever there exists a government with more horse sense than the U.S. FBI and courts have.
I grant that, perhaps, the FBI has no clue how treasonous and unconstitutional their actions, in effect, are.
Re: Re: This court order is treasonous
It's not just government staffers who worry me. You assume that 100% of the people who work at Apple and at the Government will be 100% infallible and honest and not susceptible to coercion once this slave labor government-ordered back door to break into all Apple I-phones has been created.
I am, apparently, more skeptical than you are that such software, once created, will not be misused. Although, I like your idea about its forcing even stronger security - but then, once this government precedence is established, what keeps that from being subverted and who pays for this ongoing battle against our security, coming from government?
This court order is treasonous
This court decision, if upheld will end U.S. leadership in technology. All people who want security in their devices will have to purchase from companies doing business in countries that allow secure technology to exist and do not demand open government access to all devices, which makes all our devices insecure. Our FBI and courts are anti-American in their efforts to make all our devices insecure and destroy U.S. leadership in technology.
The media, courts, FBI, and politicians are clueless on this issue. They not remotely understand the technical implications of this issue.