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Shooter's iPhone Could Harbor 'Dormant Cyber Pathogen', Claims San Bernardino DA

"It sounds like he's making up these terms as he goes."
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DA is talking out of his ass.
They think the judge is an idiot who will buy this BS.

The logic behind this must be something like:
Let's claim that there might be something malicious on the phone, but let's make our claim so obscure that Apple can't prove it isn't true. Then the judge will order Apple to unlock the iPhone for us!
 
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The more i read what the FBI says and the more i think about :

Tower: Flight two-zero niner, you're cleared for take-off.
Capt. Clarence Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower: L.A. departure frequency one two three point niner.
Capt. Clarence Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Capt. Clarence Oveur: Huh?
Tower: Flight two-zero niner, cleared for vector three-two-four.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Capt. Clarence Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower: Tower Radio, clearance, over.
Oveur: That's 'Clarence Oveur', over.
Tower: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower: Roger, over.
Roger Murdock: What?
Capt. Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?
 
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iContageion! This is pathetic and laughable. So, if the iPhone might contain malware that would hurt their servers, shouldn't the phone be destroyed and not unlocked?
 
Desperation breeds fraud. I think this brief might be an optimum test case to challenge so-called "sovereign immunity" falsely granted to government employees when sovereignty in this country lies with "we the people" not the government and its agents. I hope the unusual attention this case has garnered motivates the folks filing briefs to also follow up on the falsifications and frauds used to make the case for breaking encryption. The spanking the government so richly deserves is actually possible in this case because they have gone so freaking far over their skis.

I would love to see all the political liberals involved in this case apply a good dose of "tea party" to the government, and each of its agents, divisions, and leaders.

Rocketman

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I think theres a better chance of it holding the secrets of the iPhone 7 than a cyber pathogen. F---ing pathetic.
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djbuddha said:
So without getting too political here ... But isn't this desperate attempt to break into the phone kind of telling of how desperate they are to decrypt other devices that weren't theirs to begin with?

And isn't this just making the point for Apple as to one of the reasons why they SHOULDN'T allow a back-door? Let's just make up terms to scare the public.

If they need me, just tell Michael Ramos that I'll be fixing my neighbors Internet connection that just went down. I'm going INSIDE the Internet to do. I'll be back soon :eek:
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Making up terms to scare the public is exactly what government does to reach its objectives......terms like "patriot act" and "weapons of mass destruction" and "department of homeland security"
 
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DudeDad said:
Wouldn't the "threat" of a dormant cyber pathogen support the argument to destroy the phone rather than to unlock it and release the cyber-cracken?
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Cyber-Cracken!! That wins the thread imo. Cannot.stop.laughing.
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Chupa Chupa said:
What's that from? Totally off topic but if the guy w/ the pipe were a few pounds lighter he'd be a dead ringer for Trump. :D
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Indiana Jones & The Raiders Of The Lost Ark
 
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Chupa Chupa said:
What's that from? Totally off topic but if the guy w/ the pipe were a few pounds lighter he'd be a dead ringer for Trump. :D
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Raiders of the Lost Ark...

(spoiler alert for a movie from 1981...)
At the end, when Indy delivers the Ark of the Covenant to the US Government, he pleads with them to have the Ark looked at, and they reply with "We're having top men looking at it." (as the Ark is being put in some warehouse for storage)
 
When Apple loses the appeal and everyone's phone is not backdoored, everyone complaining now are going to look like idiots running around scared, yelling the sky falling.

Slippery slope! Precedent! Awesome scare words being used now.
 
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This is the biggest piece of BS I've ever read on this site—INCLUDING the forums. America: Where public officials can blatantly make crap up to deceive the mindless millions. When people used to say that reality TV was rotting our brains, it was mostly a joke. But now we've got Trump last night in the debate condoning torture and murdering people's innocent families and the people in the crowd are going wild. This is no longer my country—it's now some cancerous tumor that needs to be treated.

People used to wonder how the people of Germany went from such a kind, cultured people to mass murderers under Hitler. This is how it happens. People are frustrated—I get that. But we're headed quickly down the most dangerous path I could possibly imagine. Like it or not, we've been the beacon of freedom in the world and a staunch defender of freedom and democracy for a couple hundred years. If we go down, the world goes down with us, and much of the world reverts to it's old ways but with new technology that can stifle freedom of speech and expression now more than ever. They can track you from orbit and strike your house from a drone 15 miles away. What sort of uprising can fight against that?
 
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I'm sure classifying this as a pathogen puts it under some other law or some baloney like that.
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I doubt it, I think it's technological illiteracy, be it because they don't know wtf they are talking about or because they know that many Americans won't and it sounds like something that would be said by the dork character on whatever CSI/NCIS show they watch.
 
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