what`s with all the encryption?
who uses it and why?
should I be concerned?
is anyone listening?
do I need an Iphone?
can anyone help me?
please?

Guess what. It looks like the DoJ has an additional 12 phones they want Apple to crack
 
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/23/doj-vs-apple-12-court-orders/
 
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160223/07015733683/list-12-other-cases-where-doj-has-demanded-apple-help-it-hack-into-iphones.shtml
 

This whole thing reminds me of another recent incident concerning Hillarys computer.
 
Cell phone carriers are tapped by the feds when necessary meaning that they could  look up the carrier info and track who what and where the calls came from and went to. They have that authority in the US. This could tell them a lot without ever cracking the phone. They already have their leads. 
 
I have a really tough time believing that big brother can't crack an iphone permission or no permission. It would just be more difficult without the code. These things are made in China...no doubt they also have a great understanding of the OS as well.
 
I'm not sure what's happening but I don't think it's the same thing as what looks like is happening. On a scale of 1 to 10 on how much I trust our press to provide a truly accurate story I'm at a -5.

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.
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Actually the translation of this is not quite right ... people on the other side of the password, would not need it to get in ... they are already sysadmins that easily get in there to fix anything ... the whole thing is a lie by Apple, and also the Government, that is hiding several other agendas, so they can break into ISIS, Al Qaeda, China, Russia and many other places ... where the security and communications is very difficult ... not only due to the language differences, but also the different way of thinking.
 
Normally, this should never have been brought into the public forum ... and this is really bad PR for the government, but they are trying to clean their ugly/dirty face after having been found out by Snowden and to now folks finding out that the government is even further into this than we could possibly imagine.
 
The whole thing is stupid, and Apple has a right to defend their business and product ... and not lose some credibility. Apple, over the years, has been very good about the virus situations and many other OS hawking issues to which Microsoft has been completely vulnerable many times and places.
 
But for anyone to think that folks at Apple can not get inside their systems is bizarre, stupid and insane ... one mistake, and the OS is hosed, and no one can fix it, and you have to wipe the phone/computer ... you would have too many people complaining about a very poor OS ... like Windows! And this has not been the case with Apple.

craigb
Typical government operation:  Use one event that everyone can agree on to get a civil liberty removed, then abuse the hell out of the new ability using it whenever they like for anything they like.
 

 
Bingo! 

This whole thing is such a crock of $hit ....
The Friends With Benefits Agency  and the media are trying to hold a public Kangaroo court of opinion where Apple's data privacy  and the "peoples " rights to personal privacy are gonna get taken away ...
When did the media become the voice of the people ? if any thing they are outright instigators that dance at the end of a puppet string ...
The only viable currency they have is to inflict a fear based bombardment of guilt trips and to incite mass panic and fear directed at the poor unsuspecting snooks of the world that live their life's thinking big brother is their friend .
 
Promoting Fear and Chaos as a manipulative ploy  favors  "the house rules "because in the end it always equals big money gets to push it's hidden agenda and the redistribution of Power gets to slip under the cloak of trying to solve a problem that people think needs to be solved ...
Most unsuspecting people don't realize that sometimes the solutions to some problems are far worse than the problems they are looking to solve .  
IMHO, In this case lets just call a spade a spade ...
This dick head play is an Outright Power Grab  .....
 
Kenny
 
PS , if none of you guys see me around for a while , it means they got to the brake lines in my car ...
it has been nice knowing all of you .

UPDATE #2: Turns out Bill Gates' comments were taken out of context. After hearing the full quote, it was obvious that Bill was not siding with the FBI after all. He was trying - clumsily - to give a diplomatic reply that didn't say anything one way or the other. The press had selectively extracted those parts that made for a more dramatic story.
 
It seems most people in the tech world back Apple in this, but nobody wants to come off as unpatriotic. Apparently, if you're not willing to hand over any and all investigative powers you're a terrorist sympathizer. "You're either with us or against us", to quote one past president who shall remain un-named lest this thread be accused of political content.
 
Now it turns out that police departments routinely intercept cell phone calls. The city of Baltimore has been particularly fond of this tool. Baltimore, which produces more terrorists per capita than, um, Fargo, North Dakota?

Ok....from now on, I'm going back to speaking Swahili in 7 different dialects when I'm on my cell.

Mesh
Ok....from now on, I'm going back to speaking Swahili in 7 different dialects when I'm on my cell.

 
Just speak proper and elegantly in english. That's enough to confuse most government employees over at homeland security. 

Opps