codamedia
None of this makes any sense.... a password is the first line of defense and is only there to prevent the casual theft of the product or loss of a product. It is only there to stop the average person, not experts. DATA on an iphone is easy to retrieve, password or not. The Feds know how to get that data... I have no doubt they already have it.
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BS, is my comment. Admins and folks in the know, are already "inside" that software and they do not need passwords to "get in" ... once they are inside their system.
 
This was the case with email situations and many other fixes in the old days of Internet Technical support.
 
Apple can get into their phones anytime they want to ... if they can't, and they accidentally create a problem, they can not fix it, and waste a whole OS because of it ... which is stupid and a serious waste of money and time.  Apple can get into it, by snapping their fingers ... the problem being ... that it takes away the illusion that no one can break in to your phone, your bathroom, or your stool pipes!
 
That "illusion" is the issue, not the actual doing it. But if Apple loses this, Microsoft is next and then ... and then ... and then ... and before you know it ... security is the biggest peepeepiss joke ever! AND, on top of it, the government will continue lying to you, and you think they are truthful!
 
We have a credibility issue either way we look at it!

It does not matter what the issue is ..real or imagined .
History has proven time and time again that when peoples rights are taken away ...bad things happen to Millions
 
Kenny

Kamikaze

Heh heh. That Milk The Cow guy is from my old home town and is friends with a lot of my old friends. He's a bit of a dick sometimes, for instance he chose David Bowie's death to start ranting about him being a pedophile, but he does have the odd comic moment like this. 

kennywtelejazz
... when peoples rights are taken away ...bad things happen to Millions
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Try saying that in some other areas of the world ... there is no such thing as "rights" ... it's an illusion, and it always was! However, it's nice that we have a Constitution, that ... many lawyers and judges and what not love to try and break every day! And most of the public in America won't vote those folks out of office!

Who the eff do you think you are talking too ?...
 
I am a Citizen of the Universe
 
Don't  even attempt to lecture me on what is happening in this world You need to keep politics out of it ....I did
 
I am very proud of my blood line and where I come from
I am part Cuban and American Indian from my mothers slide ..
Those two examples alone should give you a clue to back the eff off ...
 
 
Kenny

If this nonsense continues, I may just go back to my home planet!

craigb
If this nonsense continues, I may just go back to my home planet!

In This Galaxy there are only two types of Aliens that leave their home planet to visit The Planet Earth
 
Type one ,
Insanely gifted and multi talented extraterrestrial beings that come to Earth to lift the consciousnesses of the planet and the people of Earth VIA creative expression in Science, Literature , The Arts, Humanitarian Efforts , ect ect ..
 
Type Two ,
All the A hole 's they wanted to get off their own planet so they could restore the balance and peace to their home planet 
 
I know which type of Alien I am ....
 
What type are you ?
 
Kenny
   

Either there is a back door to get the encryption key needed to decrypt the data - which the government can get surely get at - or there isn't. If you don't have the decryption key you need to throw brute force at it which requires massive computing power and time. Depending on the strength of the encryption, perhaps more power and time than is convenient or even feasible.
 
If there is a back door, this raises some interesting questions:
 
1. How is it that Apple could get at it and the government can't - unless they have backup stored somewhere outside of the phone? Are you telling me no one in the hugest security apparatus in the history of the world has bothered to look at this problem until now? Or does Apple have a back door, but it's secure enough that the government can't get past it?
 
2. What the $%@#  is Apple, or any other corporation, doing defeating the purpose of encryption by putting a back door in for their own purposes?
 
Are people really saying that they're concerned about the government having access to their private data, but if it's big corporation, then hey it's OK? 

kennywtelejazz
Who the eff do you think you are talking too ?...
 
I am a Citizen of the Universe
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Agreed! I guess that takes away the individual rights for people and different countries!
 
Hahaha!!!!!
 
ROFLLLLLLL

ampfixer
The iPhone has a bug right now that causes a users phone to become "bricked". Apple has told those people affected that they are out of luck. Why should the government do any better than paid customers?

 
Fixed: https://www.rt.com/usa/333022-apple-iphone-error53-patch/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205628