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DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications

• venomsnake 11y ago
  > Federal courts should require Apple to unlock encrypted data because the operating system is “licensed, not sold,” to customers, the Justice Department argued in a reply brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. > “But that is only the beginning of Apple’s relationship to the phone and to this matter. Apple wrote and owns the software that runs the phone, and this software is thwarting the execution of the warrant.” I kinda like that argument. Later it is somewhat admitting that who owns the DRM keys owns the device. The whole licence not sale scam could backfire in unexpected ways. I would love more clashes like that so we get real ownership of a copy of software or hardware that we bought in the end. Obviously the process of walling a garden could generate some troubles for the wallers.