Well dudes, you screwed it up for yourselves with illegal wiretapping, the perhaps legal but still outrageous secret court orders and the attitude you presented when all this came to light. Fuck you.
"I'd hate to have people look at me and say, 'Well how come you can't save this kid?' 'How come you can't do this thing?'" said Mr Comey in a briefing. [1]
A separate article on the same sort of thing. But, I can't help but laugh at how the instant canned response from the FBI was "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN".
It's pathetic, even more so because it keeps working.
> “Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile,” said John J. Escalante, chief of detectives for Chicago’s police department. “The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone.”
Perhaps that overly dramatic chief of detectives think there should be no white vans, no ice cream trucks, or other "tools" of the roving gangs of pedophiles.
People like these that are in position of power over citizens are more threatening to us than ISIS in a faraway land.
> It is as if the communication couldn't be monitored. It's not like the phone conjures the images from thin air
You just contradicted yourself. If the communication can't be monitored, then the phone may as well be conjuring images from the air as you have no way to know what they are, where they come from, where they are being sent.
Yea, that caught my eye as well. More particularly, the fact that he resorted to playing on the audience's emotions with a hypothetical situation rather than sharing any actual data about the number and types of crimes have been solved by having Apple and other companies decrypt devices.
How would you design a law enforcement system that could work without secret court orders? If court orders were all issued by open courts, then any non-idiotic criminal organization would have someone in attendance at all relevant hearings to alert them when the court issues an order that affects them, such as a warrant authorizing a wiretap.
A separate article on the same sort of thing. But, I can't help but laugh at how the instant canned response from the FBI was "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN".
It's pathetic, even more so because it keeps working.
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29378172