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public opinion is pro-government in the specific matter of the San Bernardino attack.
by tamana 11y ago
public opinion is pro-government in the specific matter of the San Bernardino attack.
- hodgesrm 11y agoNot just in the San Bernadino case. There are a lot of perfectly reasonable cases where you might need to get into a locked phone that do not involve terrorism. Examples include investigating the murder of the phone's owner, accessing financial information of a parent who has passed away, or recovering corporate passwords from the phone of an ex-employee who cannot be located or refuses to give them up.
- EdHominem 11y agoThis is a misuse of the word 'need'. So yes, there are many cases where all or most of us (even simultaneously) might want into a locked phone. But we're all worse off if it's possible.
- newman314 11y agoI doubt you can get the FBI to compel Apple to unlock the phone of a cheating lover or because the death of a loved one.
- merpnderp 11y agoIt shouldn't be in their favor since even the most basic of background checks would have shown her a ravi g lunatic who hated Americans and was highly supportive of terrorists. They failed us through utterly gross negligence and somehow the public is on their side.