[Ntrails]

"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.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29378172

[mcintyre1994]

> “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.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2014/09/25...

This one's even more pathetically blatant.

[vermontdevil]

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.

[hahainternet]

You mean accurate right, because it's accurate.

[outworlder]

No, it's not. It is as if the communication couldn't be monitored. It's not like the phone conjures the images from thin air.

[hahainternet]

> 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.

[pyrophane]

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.