An “Apple exec wonders: ‘Where are you going to stop?'” Hilary Brueck reports for Fortune. “Let the FBI in through the backdoor and soon they’ll be peeking through the windows and tapping into the microphones.'”
“That was the argument Apple head of online services Eddy Cue put forth on Univision on Wednesday, as he laid into the FBI for pushing the company to help uncover encrypted information on the San Bernardino shooter’s phone,” Brueck reports. “Cue says if the FBI is successful in this case, there’s no telling what it might try to do next: ‘Some day they will want to turn on a camera or the microphone,” Cue said. “That should not happen in this country.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Of course, the government would attempt to push the envelope. Don’t give ’em and inch, lest they take a mile.
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FBI Director James Comey’s war on Apple and privacy is becoming a political problem for Obama and the Democrats – March 9, 2016
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Obama administration set to expand sharing of data that N.S.A. intercepts – February 28, 2016
Apple’s fight with U.S. could speed development of devices impervious to government intrusion – February 24, 2016
Petition asks Obama administration to stop demanding Apple create iPhone backdoor – February 19, 2016
Obama administration claims FBI is not asking Apple for a ‘backdoor’ to the iPhone – February 18, 2016
Obama administration wants access to smartphones – December 15, 2015
Obama administration war against Apple just got uglier – July 31, 2015
Obama’s secret attempt to ban cellphone unlocking, while claiming to support it – November 19, 2013
Implanted chips are next down the road as a backdoor to your mind.
If they implant chips, the entertainment industry will want to charge you royalties on images and music stuck in your head.
Lol. Worms…
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/03/10/468556420/body-hacking-movement-rises-ahead-of-moral-answers?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
They already can turn it on and use the mic as a bug. Unless it is in DFU mode it can be.
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/nsa-bug-iphone/
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Here’s the deal Comey made – FBI will indict Clinton, in exchange for republican support against Apple.
They are only trying to legalize what the NSA already does unconstitionally against the USSA citizens.
Hey security leak
You will more like you know what you are talking about if you don’t include nonsense. The FBI can’t indict, only recommend. Indictment requires the DOJ and with Obama’s AG Loretta Lynch in charge of covering up you can bet the ranch it will never happen.
Never mind him, besides, she will just pardon herself when she wins the election…..
Minority report is coming if the F_b_i gets their way.
Eddy Cue is quoting from Apple’s Motion To Vacate . This isn’t an original thought.
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Finally, given the government’s boundless interpretation of the All Writs Act, it is hard to conceive of any limits on the orders the government could obtain in the future. For example, if Apple can be forced to write code in this case to bypass security features and create new accessibility, what is to stop the government from demanding that Apple write code to turn on the microphone in aid of government surveillance, activate the video camera, surreptitiously record conversations, or turn on location services to track the phone’s user? Nothing.
This was the reason the iSight camera had a mechanical iris, and current cams have a light that is hard wired to the cam.