“The FBI’s recent attempt to kick down the encryption ‘back door’ of a terrorist’s iPhone in court should have sent a shiver of dread through the world’s nearly half-billion iPhone users, according to civil libertarians and Apple itself,” Bruce Newman reports for The Mercury News. “But, mostly, it did no such thing. With Congress poised to consider draft legislation that would give the FBI — or any law enforcement agency with a court-ordered warrant — the right to examine everyone’s encrypted data, the other back-door-kicking shoe appears ready to drop.”
“But even as the two sides square off in the ongoing struggle between security and privacy, Brent Fried — a University of California, Berkeley junior who was rushing into the International House Cafe to study for midterms this week — pulled out his iPhone’s earbuds and shrugged,” Newman reports. “‘I don’t understand why it’s such a huge deal,’ he said. ‘It hasn’t been much of an issue for me.’ Fried acknowledged he’d read about the FBI’s challenge to the sanctity of his Farmville crop rotation schedule, but said, ‘I’ve been focused on other things in my life.'”
“Privacy advocates shudder at the thought that their fellow Americans have become so addicted to technology that they lose sight of the implications,” Newman reports. “Security v. Privacy can seem like a political abstraction — until the data being strip-searched are yours… With the court case making headlines in February, a Pew Research Center survey revealed that 51 percent of Americans believed Apple should unlock the iPhone to assist the FBI’s investigation, while only 38 percent sided with Apple — and the presumption of privacy.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Fools.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T. S. EliotScience may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings. — Helen Keller
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
SEE ALSO:
Dianne Feinstein’s response to Apple-FBI dispute is bad for privacy, security – April 8, 2016
White House declines to support legislation to defeat strong encryption – April 7, 2016
U.S. Senator Wyden pledges to fight limits on encryption – March 31, 2016
California Democrat Diane Feinstein backs U.S. government overreach over Apple – March 10, 2016
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Thelonious Mac” for the heads up.]