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The FBI wants access to any smart phone. Even if Apple did what the FBI wanted they would have made a way to bypass any iPhone and it could be used without a wa
by orionblastar 11y ago
The FBI wants access to any smart phone. Even if Apple did what the FBI wanted they would have made a way to bypass any iPhone and it could be used without a warrant on anyone's iPhone.
It is like opening Pandora's box and anyone with access to that code/iOS could access anyone's iPhone.
- mirimir 11y agoI agree with you about the risks of the FBI's request. I'm just saying that the FBI would have been remiss to ignore the phone.
- orionblastar 11y agoSure they have to check everything just in case it has any evidence on it. In this case the work phone didn't have any evidence on it, and breaking into the phone cause an ethical debate over the right to privacy and encryption. It is important to know that the FBI has tools made by hackers to break into an iPhone, and Apple stood by their corporate ethics to not create any OS or tools to break into an iPhone. I think this is because Apple cares about their customers and their right to privacy.
- mirimir 11y agoDoes seem so. I'm impressed, frankly. They've granted much more slack to iOS users than Google does to Android users. Unless I'm missing something. iOS devices are almost yours. Not as much so as a *BSD or Linux box, but better than Android. There is the Apple Store dictatorship. And the black-box radio. But hey.