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Apple to Analyze Recovered iPhone of Florida Teens Lost at Sea
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It's easy to judge from the outside, but until a body is found I can't blame them for doing whatever to try to keep the investigation open. Can't imagine losing a kid.
Lets not get too full of our selfs.... Its a simple typo...
I was both joking and not.
From what I've heard, it sounds like there are some suspicious characters in this story. It seems like one of the fathers(? I haven't followed this story closely - might actually be an uncle or something) of one of the boys may somehow be related in them disappearing, and he might want the iPhone to disappear since it could contain evidence.
Obviously terrorists weren't involved. But there might be a relatively ordinary murderer trying to cover up the trail and make it look like an accident.
You are in the UK if you are licensed. For example they are used for expeditions, they also need to work at land as you should have land control!
I have a licence, but for you unless you have a licence it would be illegal.
(edit: a licence is an international licence so the same rules apply everywhere so I could use it in America for land to land - just if I had genuine reason and I follow protocol)
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Good point, though if its been at sea for a few days, these sort of boats do get swamped with sea water and although they float, any blood stain or body could wash away, its a shame if these did.
Though they could have easily gone swimming though I would expect if they went swimming they would have taken gear as getting out of the sea and then spending a hour on a boat, from my experience, is unpleasant even in hot conditions.
Sounds like the parents are the ones who should be investigated for letting 2 14 year olds go boating alone.....am I nuts? Disclaimer: I don't have any kids
Yes you are... at 14, kids don't want to be accompanied by their parents and have each of their moves followed. It makes perfect sense to let two teens go alone fishing, they are capable enough to do it by themselves, and most importantly, they want to be independent at this age.
Incorrect. Every plane and ship disappearance in the so-called "Bermuda Triangle" is easily explained and the entire Triangle myth was conclusively debunked in 1975.
It sounds nuts yes and I wouldnt be happy to move from a major city and have them go out in the boat alone. But if they have lived there all their lives, they had probably learnt to drive a boat when they were big enough to take the controls.
Fine with guidance but you build that up - I went sailing when I was 14 on my own and that is much more dangerous than power boating
Supposedly the passcode is already known by the parents. Thus "cracking" it is not the issue. The task at hand is to work the iPhone such that is operational, the know passcode is entered and then get the data.
Since who was in possession of the iPhone was a minor, the parents own the data. Supposedly they have already consented to search the phone. You cannot compare this to the FBI case.
Since who was in possession of the iPhone was a minor, the parents own the data. Supposedly they have already consented to search the phone. You cannot compare this to the FBI case.
I suppose I didn't take into consideration that they may have been experienced, however it seems that at least better communication equipment was needed, or they needed more training on it....unless something came out of nowhere and knocked them overboard. Either way, it's a shame and I hope they figure out what happened to the young men
While i agree with the general message, i'm wondering if you mean this as i read it:
Is "they are capable enough to do it by themselves" less important than "they want to be independent at this age"? Because i think "if they are capable & trained" should be a requirement... (edit; i read the responses after this comment and i think you agree ;-) )
But plausible, so making it a mystery requires effort...
Which is pretty much their ultimate goal. We may win the battle against terrorists. But we lose the war against terrorism already.
"Nowadays, modern humans are mentally too weak." My father told this to me.
I hate it when parent's use this to try and downplay the message or common sense. You don't need to have given birth to have an opinion about kids
There's your answer right there.
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Government lies!
Lol, ok..... pretty pretty please tell me how you got "terrorist abduction" <----- YOUR WORDS; out of that.
Waits patiently for iOS 10 & the inclusion of the new "facepalm" emoji; perfect at times like this... always nice when they cite evidence proving themselves wrong... lol
*sigh*
So this is not mentioned in the MR article, but the boat was originally found a couple of days after they went missing, and then the coast guard "lost it" and it went missing again, AND THEN turned up in Bermuda a year later. The teens did not go anywhere near Bermuda.
Well, that's what they said right? How they needed to do that to protect Americans from terrorists.
So what are you saying? Are they lying? If so, why do they still exist?
This is the problem of today's voters. In denial.
Meanwhile, government agencies can practically say and do anything, while using up taxpayer's money, without any accountability.