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Donald Trump Criticizes Apple for Opposing iPhone 'Backdoor' Order: 'Who Do They Think They Are?'

CFreymarc said:
There is a long course history of this. There is no "right" to healthcare per many Supreme Court rulings. You are responsible for the health of your body and not anyone else. Most of all, via free speech, you have the right to determine what is healthy and not the Fed.
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Try telling that to the GOP that's constantly trying to control what women do with their health issues! Not to mention the GOP governors blocking medicaid expansion in their states or poisoning their water to save a few bucks. The GOP is the LAST party to stand up for people's rights. Unless it's about guns. That's the only thing they actually care about in the bill of rights. The fantasy about guns.
 
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Jeremy1026 said:
With encryption. There is no such thing as "less strong encryption." Either something is secure or it isn't.
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Yes there is. I'll give you a very simple example.

My password is: butterfly
My encrypted password is: utterflyb
My encryption algorithm was just to move the first letter to the end.

Can you figure out my password from just the encrypted version?

What if my encrypted password was: @#$^Y&@#$%
Can you figure out how I got that? Much harder, huh?

Just like a combination lock on a briefcase can be 3 digits long, it can also be 10 digits long. Which is harder to figure out?
 
rdowns said:
Wow, you've really bought into that crap? First, he's hardly self financing; see the most prominent space on his website's nav bar. Here's a hint, it says DONATE. The money he has put in his campaign has been loans. He's enriching his friends with sales of his hats and other merchandise. But wait, there's more...

He has as many ties to Wall Street as any other candidate, probably more. You may recall Trump calling Cruz out for his loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank. Trump went on to tell us that they now own Cruz. WOuld it surprise you to know Trump has tens, maybe hundreds of millions in outstanding loans from Wall Street. Don't take my word for it, let's look at his most recent financial disclosure.

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Tell us again how Trump can't be bought.
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Trump is worth 4 Billion.

That totals... let's use your numbers. 100 million.


So that is 2.5% of his worth.



Let's put it in perspective... For someone with $100K net worth, that's $2,500.

So $2,500 would let someone buy lunch for $6.85 per day for a year.

Basically the equivalent of a child's lunch money at his economic scale (liquid and firm assets combined.)

So, he borrowed lunch money we're saying... and the cost of a PB&J and milk bought him?
 
jettredmont said:
Sorry, but you can call Trump an ******* douchebag all day and night and not even begin to approach the damage his demagoguery has already done to this country, much less what it will continue to wreak if he gains the nomination of the Republican party. Calling Trump names is indignant, but pandering to base fears and prejudices to gain support in polls is far far beyond that.
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So it's OK for you to do it because he's worse than you. Quite justifying your own short comings.
 
I find it hard to believe that the terrorist would keep sensitive information on his WORK phone. The phone they want to break into is the phone his state employer assigned to him. And it's the only one they didn't thoroughly destroy. Are we really going to give up Apple's security plan to crack open a phone that probably has nothing useful in it?
 
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In all fairness, to people who aren't very familiar with tech things, they see it as not giving access to something like Caller ID. They don't understand the many detailed implications this has to a whole eccosystem of devices and software.

This backdoor thing wont solve anything- because if the phones are opened for the FBI, they will move on to something else- paper notes in soup cans, carrier pigeons, Yahoo Mail Drafts folders, code in chat rooms... you can't tear apart each item because of the few times it's used wrong, that doesn't solve anything. I love Apple not only for the quality devices, but the integrity of the software. Sure, sometimes there's a glitch, but it's miles above anything else out there, and they're always working on it. Opening up the phones won't solve anything except in a few individual cases, but will create tons of problems in a mass consumer type of way.
 
melendezest said:
No, you did not do that directly.

I merely pointed out that mentioning that other countries do the same implies deflection and justification.

In other words, it sounds like you were saying (or rather, implying): "It's understandable that the US is racist because all other countries are."

It isn't.

Your post left it open for that kind of interpretation.

That said, I agree with you in this regard: it is indeed a SAD state of things.
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Then I clarify that it was not my intent to justify racist behavior.
 
yaxomoxay said:
Uh? This has nothing to do with election financing. Unless he was running in 1993.
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The implication is if Trump owes all those wall street firms millions upon millions of dollars, he also owes them favors. He certainly wouldn't bite the hand that feeds him and props him up every time he files for bankruptcy and stiffs one of them.
 
This will be force through so the FBI and other secret services can spy on leaders of other countries. It will be forced not onto the one phone but into the operating system as a whole. Terrorists will love this back door too.
 
Amazing Iceman said:
The worse thing that could happen to this country is to get a president who thinks he's a god, while being more ignorant than a goat.

Whenever this guy opens his mouth, people start fighting and hating each other more and more.
If he gets elected, it wouldn't surprise me if this country engages into a new Civil War.
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I've often posited (in internal discussions at home) that this country is headed directly into just that: Civil War.

There is an increasing amount of social, ideological, and moral conflicts between races, states, and cultural backgrounds here, which in turn is a consequence of the lack of a singular culture and the ultimate expression of "freedom".

Couple that with beer, guns, and "good-ole" indignation and vengeance, and the moral arguments that result, combined with pressure from (apparently "outsider") Government agencies, result in a powder keg. Think Waco, TX on a larger scale.

If everybody is "free", it follows that everybody is "free to do what they want."

Without a singular moral template (i.e.: agreed upon principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior) to base laws upon, and with the existence of easily mutable laws, we have the possibility for chaos.

When all these factors are taken up to the State level, we have the grounds for secession from the Union.

It's a domino effect from there.

How soon (if ever) this happens is another story (hopefully it doesn't.

But it's interesting to see the events unfold to the point where someone like Donald Trump gets the (positive!!) attention.

A (free) country is not a business, but he is treating ours like one.

A country run like a business or a corporation can result in only one type of regime: Totalitarian.

Given all this, I have my ejection seat ready, and my finger is on the button. Just in case.
 
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bitslap47 said:
Trump is worth 4 Billion.

That totals... let's use your numbers. 100 million.


So that is 2.5% of his worth.



Let's put it in perspective... For someone with $100K net worth, that's $2,500.

So $2,500 would let someone buy lunch for $6.85 per day for a year.

Basically the equivalent of a child's lunch money at his economic scale (liquid and firm assets combined.)

So, he borrowed lunch money we're saying... and the cost of a PB&J and milk bought him?
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Let's say he actually IS worth $4 billion (which is under dispute). That's not cash in the bank. The vast majority of it is in real estate holdings, assumptions about what his name is worth in branding, etc. So it would be very easy for those piddling Wall St firms to take down Trump's empire if he makes them mad. They could collude and decide not to fund his future ventures. Call in any debts he is dragging his feet on and put a lien on his property. They could punish him plenty if he didn't play along.
 
laurim said:
The implication is if Trump owes all those wall street firms millions upon millions of dollars, he also owes them favors. He certainly wouldn't bite the hand that feeds him and props him up every time he files for bankruptcy and stiffs one of them.
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Are you saying that only a Franciscan friar that has no material possession and/or no debt should run for president? Come on.
 
Rigby said:
I think it's a mistake to blame "the government". Most government workers are fine, trustyworthy folks. It's specifically the "intelligence community" that doesn't deserve our trust. They have lied, cheated, and circumvented or secretly "reinterpreted" the law in ways that many people consider unconstitutional. Heck, they have even illegally snooped on the elected officials that are supposed to oversee them. They are just out of control. And now they act surprised that people don't want to give them even broader powers.
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Yes - I for sure didn't meant government workers in general. Heck not even the intelligence community in general. I think in particular in times like this we need them. For sure they are under a lot of pressure to make sure nothing happens because if so they get the blame. But that does not justify spying on everyone.
 
yaxomoxay said:
Are you saying that only a Franciscan friar that has no material possession and/or no debt should run for president? Come on.
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Lol. True Trump supporter black and white thinking. There's a vast spectrum of indebtedness in that scenario.

The very least you can say is that he is lying when he says he isn't bought/influenced by anyone's money.

BTW- Did they ever find out who got all the $20 parking fees being charged at a recent Trump event?
 
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