“Donald Trump says that Apple should comply with a California judge’s order to help the FBI break into the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters,” David Wright reports for CNN. “‘I agree 100% with the courts,’ Trump said on ‘Fox and Friends’ on Wednesday morning. ‘In that case, we should open it up. I think security over all — we have to open it up, and we have to use our heads. We have to use common sense.'”
“rump strongly argued that the Apple should unlock the phones, adding, the shooters ‘killed 14 people, other people laying desperately ill in the hospital from what they did. These are two people radicalized who were given a wedding party by the people they killed! There’s something going on. We have to be very careful, we have to be very vigilant,'” Wright reports. “‘But to think that Apple won’t allow us to get into her cell phone,’ Trump continued, ‘who do they think they are? No, we have to open it up.'”
“The letter, signed by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and published Tuesday, warns that complying with the order would entail building ‘a backdoor to the iPhone,’ creating ‘something we consider too dangerous to create,'” Wright reports. “‘The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals,’ the letter reads.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Encryption is either on or off. This is a binary issue. There is no in-between. You either have encryption or you do not.
There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, December 2015
Oppose government overreach.
Some truths are universal. Like this one:
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
SEE ALSO:
Tim Cook posts open letter opposing U.S. government demands to bypass iPhone encryption – February 17, 2016
Apple CEO opposes court order to help FBI unlock San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone – February 17, 2016
Apple wants judge to rule if it can be forced to unlock defendant’s iPhone – February 16, 2016
U.S. House lawmakers seek to outlaw states from banning encrypted iPhones – February 10, 2016
Obama administration wants access to smartphones – December 15, 2015
Obama administration’s calls for backdoors into encrypted communications echo Clinton-era key escrow fiasco – December 14, 2015
Donald Trump: To stop ISIS recruiting, maybe we should be talking to Bill Gates about ‘closing that Internet up in some way’ – December 8, 2015
Hillary Clinton: We need to put Silicon Valley tech firms to ‘work at disrupting ISIS’ – December 7, 2015
Apple CEO Cook: ‘You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys’ – November 21, 2015
Apple CEO Cook defends encryption, opposes back door for government spies – October 20, 2015
Do not let the government snoops weaken encryption – November 4, 2015
U.S. NSA seeks to build quantum computer to crack most types of encryption – January 3, 2014
Judge compares government request for Apple to access users’ iPhone data to execution order – October 27, 2015
U.S. judge expresses doubts over forcing Apple to unlock iPhone – October 26, 2015
Apple tells U.S. judge it can’t unlock iPhones running iOS 8 or higher – October 20, 2015
a href=”http://macdailynews.com/2015/10/20/apple-ceo-cook-defends-encryption-opposes-back-door-for-government-spies/”>Apple CEO Cook defends encryption, opposes back door for government spies – October 20, 2015
With Apple court order, activist federal judge seeks to fuel debate about data encryption – October 12, 2015
Judge declines to order Apple to disable security on device seized by U.S. government – October 10, 2015
Apple refused to give iMessages to the U.S. government – September 8, 2015
Obama administration war against Apple just got uglier – July 31, 2015
Edward Snowden: Apple is a privacy pioneer – June 5, 2015
Apple, others urge Obama to reject any proposal for smartphone backdoors – May 19, 2015
U.S. appeals court rules NSA bulk collection of phone data illegal – May 7, 2015
In open letter to Obama, Apple, Google, others urge Patriot Act not be renewed – March 26, 2015
Apple’s iOS encryption has ‘petrified’ the U.S. administration, governments around the world – March 19, 2015
And why does the USSA want to get into a dead person’s iPhone data directly? The NSA already has all the information. Apple does not need to make their job any easier. The FBI needs to ask the NSA, not Apple for the data.
This issue is being used as a WEDGE to FORCE open the encryption issue. It’s about the FUTURE of the iPhone.
A) Donald Trump is an technology ignorant dolt.
B) This issue is NOT about unlocking a San Bernardino iPhone. That issue is dead and over. Can’t be done.
C) This issue IS about forcing Apple to shove backdoors into FUTURE iPhones.
So STFU stupid Donald Trump and go back to amusing us all on superficial, mindless television programs. That’s where you belong.
No its not.
Im on Donalds side..
We are not talking about backdoors or encryption issues..
Its about unlocking a single phone that was used by a know terrorist. ……..
Very naive of these rebellious bunch here. ….naive and paranoid……
Go head … Bring out the guns.. Yee ha.
Yes, it’s about unlocking one phone, but in order to unlock the phone you have to insert a backdoor that allows the bypassing of the encryption settings.
So it IS about backdoors and encryption after all
Unlocking and encryption bypass are not the same thing.
Successfully unlocking the phone activates the decryption.
For one specific case … On a phone that was used by a terrorist.
Everytime i unlock my phone i activate decryption. It a password i use.
I dont change the whole apple ios securty system .
Ohhhh apple iscloving all the free promo…. Lol
Naive workd.. Very Naive
Applie is loving all this free promo
You could attempt to understand the issue instead of using your ignorance as a chance to bash Apple. Maybe if you actually read through all of Tim Cook’s letter.
Hint: This issue has nothing to do with decrypting one single iPhone. That can’t be done in this case because the owner is dead. The person can’t even consider applying their Firth Amendment rights. It’s about FAR more than just one iPhone.
My ignorance? Thank you.. I guess you think that comment makes you come across as wise?
I suggest you read all my posts, on the subject at hand (tons of them today) in their entirety to see what my understanding and stanse on the issue is.
Is saying apple is loving the publicity bashing apple.. …lol… Or not acknowledging it is naive !
Here it is a nutshell ..so u wont have to read and search too much.:
Government can search my home with the proper court order. The most privet place to me .
Government can tap my land line with court order. And has for decades with proper court order.
Government can confiscate my computer with proper court order.
This is not an either or case …… Its way more complex and consequential to just leave it in hands of Dogmatic Idealism!
Create the proper provisions and everyone wins.
Times changes… so should we… … Thats fundimental to survival.
In the meanwhile apple is loving the Publicity .. 😉 Yes it is !… Big time . Regardless.
I think I’ll head back to the marshmallow roast. Y’ll have a nice life now.
http://www.macworld.com/article/3034355/ios/why-the-fbis-request-to-apple-will-affect-civil-rights-for-a-generation.html
Would you be ok if apple unlocked a phone if your child’s life absolutely depended on it ?
That’s such a far-fetched scenario, that I won’t bother going there.
The phone is set to wipe all data after ten unsuccessful unlock attempts, therefore a backdoor is required.
“rump strongly argued that the Apple should unlock the phones,
What an ass
Trump obviously hasn’t thought this out.