Mobile Phones

[jazzy_dave]

All IPhone owners  should read this -

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

I do not have one - but it could be the thin edge of the wedge.

Comments

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

This is such a change of pace from the telephone companies that bent over backward to give up our information to the NSA.
Hugs, Jon

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

I am glad they are standing up to the Feds on this one!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Good on you, Apple!!

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

This has been all over our news today and I, for one, don't think Apple should build this or provide it. If the American government has a back door, then other individuals, companies and scammers could get their hands on it sooner or later, and then people with iphones would have no privacy. I hope Apple wins this fight. Here, iinet (an internet provider) fought our govt and won, but I think the govt has forced their hand in the end. Boo!

[(Anonymous)]

They're not asking for a back door they are asking for Apple to do a on time fix on this device only to allow the FBI to brute force the pin. Seeing as the person who owned it murdered a bunch of people the request seems pretty reasonable to me.

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

yeah, i can see that being the case here.. stand off between the privacy of accused criminals and the compromise of sanity, but at the same time edward snowden is on his way back to the states..?

and tpp is a hovering threat

hmmm

i'm just getting sick of it. all this emf bullshit

it reminds me of cattle prods which they then developed into tasers for law enforcement use.. and then whack a bunch of black folk

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

It's indeed an honorable stance, and I'm pleased to see Tim Cook nail his colors to the mast. With privacy under assault from companies and governments worldwide, it's high time more companies took the stance that your data is yours, and nobody else's - not your government's, and certainly not your vendor's.

It's been a vivid saga indeed to follow. Even the New York Times isn't escaping being meddled with - they had a story up the other day which, amongst other things, made the excellent point that if Apple were to build any kind of back door or other deliberate weakness usable by the US government, there are plenty of other governments that would be queueing up for similar access, notably the gigantic market of China. That paragraph was deleted within a day.

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[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

good luck edward snowden..

so the question is privacy. should there be any? or are we just meat for the grill?
the loss of autonomy or better still, a borg of writhing eels..

some of us kill, some of us are ill, it's like everything is everything and i need a pill

remember those italian boys and elliott ness? nobody turned over any information to nobody, unless they wanted to end up in cement boots.

i expect many smartphones may eventually find their way into the toilet at opportune moments. how do you destroy the databank of one of the largest phone providers in existence? and except for fucking criminals, who cares? but what do i know? i hate the damn things. i have friends that live on them.

just a fly on the wall

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