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France Clears Bill That Could Force Apple to Unlock iPhones
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Boycott their wine. California wine is better than French anyway, and Washington wine is better than Cali.
I am sure they are doing this as rapidly as possible (i.e. eliminate the Apple Update without a password vulnerability). Word is they are trying to make their iCloud information inaccessible to themselves as well - which would p/off alot of the govts who are used to that access.
I think the real question is can they get these changes deployed before they get outlawed? In the current environment here in the U.S. I could see legislation being immediately passed to prohibit this after its deployed (or before if the surveilance goons get nervous enough).
My legal French is not the best (okay, honestly, it's non-existent) but if they really only wanna have access to encrypted data (as this article states), well, here you have it. Have fun with the zeros and ones without the keys…
You mean the "normal" people that don't understand what civil liberties are about or how they relate to their life and freedoms, and likely don't even know who Washington DC is named for:
But there are plenty of "freaks" like me who do understand the slippery slope here.
Your India example is very much not comparable here. In that case BB possessed keys. In this case Apple does not. Governments are trying to force Apple, a private concern, to make keys for them. Very different situation.
It is not a violation of basic human rights. If you accept the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as covering the basic human rights, all it declares is this: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence...". (Article 12; http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/). Maybe that's not sweeping enough but that's currently the most agreed upon definitions of basic rights.
Breaking the encryption of a suspected terrorist's phone is not "arbitrary interference" (although it could be).
But that's not what the law looks like. The law (if the authors are to believed) is not about forcing companies to break encryption, just to share data: "The target is to have them cooperate. The aim is not to break the encryption -- the principle is that manufacturers should cooperate.'" That might not be true (but without knowing the lawmaker, I don't have evidence to disbelieve it) but all it sounds like to me is that they just want access to the encrypted data. In that case, let them have it and try to figure out how to decrypt it. Apple doesn't have to break the encryption, just pass on the data.
Of course, my reading of the Bloomberg article could be wrong (or its reporting wrong) but that's what it look like to me. I'd read the proposed bill if I could read French but because I can't, I'm going to have to suspend judgment on this.
I guess this is an incentive to produce a completely un-hackable phone so that even if the phone makers want to help they just can't.
I guess you haven't been to New York City since September 11, 2001, have you?
This is exactly what every major city in the U.S. looks like these days. But, hey, were safer, right?
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Um, Meister, you do realize that Donald Trump supports the FBI in this issue, don't you?
It appears that the only issue politicians around the world can agree on is the need to strip the people of their basic human rights.
But a lot of those borders have now been closed and migrants are still an issue.
I know.I guess you haven't been to New York City since September 11, 2001, have you?
This is exactly what every major city in the U.S. looks like these days. But, hey, were safer, right?
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Um, Meister, you do realize that Donald Trump supports the FBI in this issue, don't you?
It appears that the only issue politicians around the world can agree on is the need to strip the people of their basic human rights.
And I strongly disagree with him on this topic.
I hope that he is just saying these things to get elected.
So you are OK if the FBI forces Apple to hand over the signing keys to digitally sign iOS? With those keys, the FBI doesn't need Apple to make anything. The FBI can just hex edit the max 10 tries to a different number, resign the modified iOS with the key and install it.
I know there are some people that care about the current iPhone encryption situation but my point is American iPhone users didn't care when something similar happened before just because it was not an iPhone or happening in USA. Precedent was already set. Apple didn't speak up for Blackberry, so maybe Apple deserves this.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Hey, without the French, there would be no United States!
Uh, no. If you've read my posts I'm 100% against the gov't forcing Apple or any other private entity or citizen from making something that does not exist.
Govt makes the laws. Judges implement them. Pretty much the same in the USofA.
According to Snowden, the FBI doesn't need Apple at all to hack the iPhone.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/09/edward-snowden-fbi-apple/
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/09/edward-snowden-fbi-apple/
Yes they did. They surrendered their liberty. Again...
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For Sale: One French military rifle. Never fired. Only dropped once.
Bad bad ISIS.... These terrorists are destroying our free society. Let's take away everyones freedom and liberty and save people.
And... ANOTHER French False Flag published on Charlie Hebdo anniversary
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Fear has never been a good guide for policy decisions.
What a sad state of existence the "free" world is entering.
I had always thought Europe was smarter than that.
Scary, when one by one every dystopian future Sci-Fi flick I grew up with is become Sci-Fact.
What a sad state of existence the "free" world is entering.
I had always thought Europe was smarter than that.
Scary, when one by one every dystopian future Sci-Fi flick I grew up with is become Sci-Fact.
No iPhone or Apple products for France till their people fight their nasty gov't off.
EDIT: I know people will be HIGHLY upset about this if Apple decided to stop selling till they get their head right. He He He.
EDIT: I know people will be HIGHLY upset about this if Apple decided to stop selling till they get their head right. He He He.
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"The aim is not to break the encryption"
Lmao!! Of course not. The aim is for Apple to hire psychics to divine the contents of a locked iPhone.
Lmao!! Of course not. The aim is for Apple to hire psychics to divine the contents of a locked iPhone.
Before the French get all uptight, they should remember the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship they bombed in New Zealand, killing one person. The French military committed an act of terrorism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
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From the people who committed a terrorist act in New Zealand, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the greenpeace flag ship.
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14 US citizens killed by terrorists
14,000 US citizens killed by US citizens each year.
