re: Surprise Surprise - FBI wants Apple to unlock additional phones

Apples stance on this is still so puzzling. Not wanting to help is one thing, but why won't they come out and say whether they can or cannot actually do it?

When the phones are revealed and sold, Apple boast about its robust encryption to the point that they say even Apple cannot get into the phone once it is shipped. If that is the case, why not fall back on that defense? If it isn't the case, and Apple can indeed override security features that lets the FBI brute force the phone, then why say it is impenetrable?

You left out OTHER Government hacking.

You may trust your information to the US government. But its not private hackers you have to worry about. Do you trust your information to China? North Korea? Iran? Its not just the governments you trust that will only have your information. It will be a free for all.

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Not wanting to help is one thing, but why won't they come out and say whether they can or cannot actually do it?

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From what I understand, they can do it but they will have to design the hack. It doesn't currently exist.

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From what I understand, they can do it but they will have to design the hack. It doesn't currently exist.

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That is what I understand as well. Basically, the FBI wants Apple to override the "10 wrong passwords and reset" and the "time-delay between tries" feature that the phone may have. This will allow the FBI to hack it quickly with brute force. Part of me believes this is Apple just trying to save face after proclaiming even they couldn't get into the phones, but I don't have the technical knowledge to say that for certain. At the end of the day, if Apple is capable of overriding the feature on their end, then can't you argue that the backdoor already exists?

Regardless, if the government has a warrant, I don't see the issue.

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I'm irrational, shallow and stupid

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But the backdoor doesn't exist. It's capable of being created. Apple doesn't want to create it.

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Then it already exist. If there is a way to get into the phone with Apple's help, then there is already a backdoor.

Now, from what I understand, this may not be feasible on the most recent iOS and phones, but a certain variation can have this capability.

Highly recommend this article from CNBC on the matter

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Then it already exist.

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We have different definitions of "exist."

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Pretty funny insult coming from you

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Your name says it all.

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The Preamble does not have any legal authority.

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Case law and heavyweights like Oliver Wendell Holmes beg to differ, mon ami:

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Did you actually read the first result on your link?

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The only case in which the Supreme Court has directly addressed a claim based on the Preamble. In this case the court examined the Constitutional rights of Jacobson, and rejected his claim to a personal right, derived from then Preamble, to the "blessings of liberty". In rejecting Jacobson’s claim, the Court wrote that "the Preamble indicates the general purpose for which the people ordained and established the Constitution" and went on to point out that "[the Preamble] has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government..." .

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