“U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch hopes Apple will finally see the light and comply with a Federal Court order to create a passcode hackable version of the iPhone operating system for an FBI investigation,” Jeff Gamet writes for The Mac Observer. “In an interview on Fox News, Ms. Lynch said, ‘It is still our hope that [Apple] will see their way clear to complying with that order as thousands of other companies do every day.'”
“The iPhone maker has a new ally in its defense now that a Federal judge in a separate case ruled the All Writs Act — the basis for the FBI’s request — doesn’t grant the government the authority to force Apple to create a less secure version of iOS,” Gamet writes. “[Now, about] Ms. Lynch’s statement that thousands of companies comply with ‘that order’ every day. So far, no company has complied because only one — in the entire history of the United States — has ever been ordered to do so, and that company is currently contesting its validity and legal standing.”
“If this was the kind of order thousands of companies complied with daily, Apple wouldn’t be in a position to call it unprecedented and Director Comey wouldn’t be conceding that it will set precedent,” Gamet writes. “That makes Ms. Lynch’s statement either misinformed or misleading, and considering she’s the Attorney General for the United States it’s a safe bet she isn’t misinformed.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The correct term for what Lynch is doing is disinformation.
Lynch et al. are already desperately stooping to disinformation because they’re losing and liberty is winning.
Do the right thing, U.S. Congress!
This is not about this phone. This is about the future. And so I do see it as a precedent that should not be done in this country or in any country. This is about civil liberties and is about people’s abilities to protect themselves. If we take encryption away… the only people that would be affected are the good people, not the bad people. Apple doesn’t own encryption. Encryption is readily available in every country in the world, as a matter of fact, the U.S. government sponsors and funs encryption in many cases. And so, if we limit it in some way, the people that we’ll hurt are the good people, not the bad people; they will find it anyway. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, February 2016
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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