“In this country we have rights,” Mark Cuban blogs. “Under the 6th Amendment we have very specific rights: ‘In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.'”
“In the current case facing Apple, the terrorists who had possession of the phone are deceased. However, in one of the next times Apple is called upon to open up a phone to enable access, chances are good that the person in possession of a phone during an illegal and possibly heinous act will be alive, be an American citizen and demand ‘to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence,'” Cuban writes. ” In the event Apple loses the current case to the FBI, setting a precedent that they can be compelled to unlock phones for the FBI and other government agencies, each and every defendant in such cases will have the assistance of counsel for their defense. What do you expect every defense lawyer to do in order to protect their client who has had a phone opened?”
“Once the phone is ‘cracked’ by Apple or any device or Operating System developer, whatever is found by the FBI or whatever government agency is involved, is going to be labeled “planted” or false evidence,” Cuban writes. “The defendants lawyer is going to scream as loud as they can that whatever was found was not originated by their client. That Apple, in cahoots with the government agency, modified their software to not only unlock the phone, but to also write to the device everything the government agency needs to gain a conviction. Pictures. Texts. Logs. Files. Videos. All originated and/or imported by the code in order to gain a conviction.”
“The best way to disprove this allegation by the defense attorney?” Cuban writes. “Line by line publication of the code used to open it. Reviewed by who knows how qualified and how many “experts” who will pass judgement based upon who paid them. Possibly a line by line presentation of the code to a jury of the defendant’s peers.”
“Yes, the FBI and Apple would do everything possible to try to stop this presentation, but what if they cannot?” Cuban writes. “Which is exactly why Apple must win the current case against the FBI. There is a near ZERO chance that the code created by Apple to break into their phones can stay private under current laws.”
Much more in the full article – highly recommended – here.
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SEE ALSO:
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch plays disinformation card in iPhone unlocking fight – March 1, 2016
The FBI’s case against Apple got kneecapped in Brooklyn: The judges rebuke couldn’t have been stronger – March 1, 2016
U.S. Magistrate Judge: The U.S. government cannot force Apple to unlock an iPhone in New York drug case – February 29, 2016
Verizon CEO McAdam supports strong encryption; Apple vs. FBI should be addressed by U.S. Congress – March 1, 2016
House Judiciary Committee members consider legal brief in support of Apple vs. U.S. government – March 1, 2016
Apple will tell Congress that strong encryption protects against terrorists – March 1, 2016
U.S. Representative Darrell Issa on Apple vs. FBI: Very scary when your government wants to know more about you – February 24, 2016
Apple CEO Cook decried Obama’s ‘lack of leadership’ on encryption during a closed-door meeting last month – February 29, 2016
Apple’s top lawyer: U.S. government order weakens security for all iPhones – February 29, 2016
Apple CEO Cook decried Obama’s ‘lack of leadership’ on encryption during a closed-door meeting last month – February 29, 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook can probably defy the US government all he wants and not go to jail – February 29, 2016
Apple CEO Cook picks up where Snowden left off in privacy debate – February 29, 2016
Obama administration set to expand sharing of data that N.S.A. intercepts – February 28, 2016
If Apple loses, your home could be the next thing that’s unlocked: Access to your security cameras would be just a judge order away – February 28, 2016
The Apple vs. FBI fight is about something more basic than software and laws – February 28, 2016
Apple privacy battle with Washington looms as watershed moment – February 26, 2016
Apple’s lawyer: If we lose, it will lead to a ‘police state’ – February 26, 2016
Apple: The law already exists that protects us from U.S. government demands to hack iPhone – February 26, 2016
Good point.
James Comey: “I’m from the government. I’m here to help you.”
Uhh huh… 👎
Cuban’s initial premise: “In this country we have rights” is a bit outdated. It applies to the America we remember. The one that followed the Constitution.
In today’s USA, the Constitution doesn’t count anymore if it gets in the way of government.
Sad, but true.
Ehhhh, it’s just a “suggestion”
A set of guide lines, like the pirate’s code.
84 Guy – are you REALLY suggesting that Americans don’t have any rights now? There is far too much hyperbole going around here. You have a massive amount of rights that the government isn’t interfering with in the slightest. You even have the right to spread your own FUD indiscriminately.
What you are seeing in these privacy cases is US democracy at work. One branch of the government (executive) wants a specific power. The other branches (courts; congress) will give their views and will ultimately decide. It’s the checks and balances system working as it’s intended to.
I think 84 Mac Guy puts a good perspective. In that country you had rights, rights posted on a Constitution that is now used as toilet paper by those who have power, and does that country have power.
The power to go up to the UN and point out (read lie) all the weapons of mass destruction that another country supposedly had and then that walk away from the democratic process of a UN vote so that they could exert their power on another sovereign state, while tossing the principle tenets of the United Nations down the toilet. The power to come up with laws to circumvent the Geneva convention so that enemy combatants (many of whom are innocent people) can be held over a decade without trial, and tortured on top of all that. The power to get a so obvious war criminal such as George W. Bush off the hook by waving a magic “belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards” statement that the wee people have had to chew and swallow.
This power wielded over the wee people of that nation can only happen when the wee people are weak. So much for a once great Empire.
Rights are only effective when they are put in motion, and made real, otherwise they are delusions on the toilet paper of your choice.
That government will not be for the wee people until the wee people get their collective ideas together as actions.
@Road Warrior – so you can’t think of any examples of government overreach in the past? Not Nixon’s illegal tapings? Not police brutality? Not institutional racism? Not illegal wars? Not prohibition? The expansion of slavery?
How far back do you want me to go?
Get a grip, man. You live in the second free-est country in the world. The first free-est, as Jim Jefferies notes, is probably Holland. There, you can fuck a hooker while snorting coke in front of a cop. Quite legally.
There are many criteria to measure freedom such as freedom to worship, freedom to vote, freedom to love, freedom to do drugs, freedom of the press, economic freedom, etc. Depending on the study, the United States falls from 1 to 30 in many categories. This is not bad, but it’s not great.
One measure of freedom the United States falls last in is incarceration. Based on 2012 statistics, the U.S. incarcerates 716 people per 100K. The number two jailer is Israel, which incarcerates 223 per 100K. So, according to this metric, the U.S. is very far from being free.
FDR’s Freedom from Fear is right up there with the rest. It is the moral center of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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