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If Apple refused to comply with the FBI's request, why should the FBI owe Apple a disclosure of this vulnerability they found? Keep the downvotes coming, lads!
by artursapek 11y ago
If Apple refused to comply with the FBI's request, why should the FBI owe Apple a disclosure of this vulnerability they found?
Keep the downvotes coming, lads! They're meant for burying spam and junk comments, not expressing disagreement, but I enjoy them anyway.
- agd 11y agoThe FBI doesn't owe Apple. It owes the public - many of whom own an Apple product.
- gambiting 11y agoBecause FBI spent taxpayer's money to find a vulnerability in a device used by millions of people - it should release that information so that apple can fix it. Simple as that.
- sigzero 11y agoBecause of the pissing match, I doubt that is going to happen.
- teacup50 11y agoApple probably should have considered their own fallibility and the value of a working relationship with the FBI before launching a scorched-earth PR campaign. If the FBI could rely on Apple to provide assistance when presented with a court order, they would have no reason to keep such a method private -- or to even find and use it in the first place. Tim Cook does not come across as a sufficiently prescient CEO in this boondoggle.
- enlightenedfool 11y agoIf I find a vulnerability and exploit someone's device, it's not okay under law. Why is a government institution exempt from law in a supposedly exemplary democracy?
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- lmz 11y agoBecause it's not someone's device anymore. It's government evidence?
- ceejayoz 11y agoIt was the county's device to start with, too. Not the shooter's.
- ikeboy 11y agoThe phone exploited was owned by the government.
- profmonocle 11y agoBecause they're a law enforcement agency with a warrant. It's also illegal for me to enter your home without your permission, but the police don't need your permission when they have a search warrant.