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The FBI went through a lot of trouble to invent cell phones, then smart phones, and then to distribute them to every adult in the country just to protect us all
by Rapzid 12y ago
The FBI went through a lot of trouble to invent cell phones, then smart phones, and then to distribute them to every adult in the country just to protect us all from each other. Before cell phones we were overrun by crimes of all nature; there was no hope and no stopping it. Now Apple has the nerve to implement features that might lock out law enforcement from information they have a god given right to? Information critical to preventing your neighbours from killing your children in the dead of night with impunity. Of all the ways we have to communicate and store information securely, it's cell phones that MUST have a law enforcement back door because reasons!
And people have the nerve to COMPLAIN? I bet these same people will be up in arms when law enforcement wants back doors on our 24/7 encrypted voice box recorders @.@
- ziffyiffy 12y ago> The FBI went through a lot of trouble to invent cell phones The government has every reason to have us all use as much technology as possible because whenever our life touches technology, it leaves a trace which will eventually be a part of your personal profile. I doubt that the Apple/Google encryption is a serious hurdle to the government. It's very likely that this is just a campaign to make the consumer trust these brands again because huge tech companies live (some maybe forced to live) in a symbiosis with government agencies. If the government doesn't want tech companies to unite and turn against it, which still hasn't happened yet and probably never will, then they must also give them something after/before they take something.