One thing is for sure- for phones with TouchID where you only need to enter the pin on reboot, it makes sense to make the pin something other than numeric and longer than 4 digits.

I see this as a campaign stunt for the LP nod. But for me, it only confirms that Gary Johnson is the right choice. McAfee isn't exactly striking a resonant chord for liberty here. He's coming off like a braggart.

I wish the FBI would give him a shot at the data- cause I'd like to see him eat a shoe on live TV, or STFU and go into hiding if he doesn't have the guts to eat the shoe.

Cause I don't think for a second he can break AES.

I think we need to up the math requirements for english degrees.

Alas you can't teach common sense.

I would be a lot more sympathetic if I weren't constantly being bombarded by BernieBros insisting we need "Free" college educations and all kinds of other handouts.

Sorry, I grew up poor, I didn't get lucky, I worked hard. I made my own luck.

She made her own bed, and then set it on fire.

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How did the government get such power? Immediately via overthrow, or incrementally?

At what point do you draw the line? Has there ever been a government that got some power and then stopped trying to get more? Look at the history of the USA for the past 200 years.

Apple is trying to draw a line in the sand. We can debate about where the line should be, but there has to be a line.

That it doesn't hurt another, do what thou wilt. Thus gay married farmers should be able to defend their marijuana crops with fully auto AK47s. Marijuana, guns and gay sex don't do bad things to society. Only people can misuse them.

It doesn't matter. We want privacy, we believe we have human rights.

They don't care. They want power. That's what this all boils down to.

They want power. And they are going to keep trying until they get it, just as they have taken over so much already.

What if Apple didn't fight this yet failed to create a working vulnerability? After all the phone has protections against its firmware being replaced without the passcode!

IF Apple were to fail would they be held in contempt of court?

This is why I have contempt for our courts-- way too many judges who are never punished for their tyranny.

"In a secret meeting convened by the White House around Thanksgiving, senior national security officials ordered agencies across the U.S. government to find ways to counter encryption software and gain access to the most heavily protected user data on the most secure consumer devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the marquee product of one of America’s most valuable companies, according to two people familiar with the decision."

But the government has done a poor job of regulating money, and well, to be honest, money is really the result of our efforts / labors, and thus yeah, the government should not be regulating it, generally.

To think otherwise is to think that my invention that I have locked up in my head that would benefit society (according to you) is something you have the right to force me to disclose.

Privacy exists for reasons and is a basic human right.

EG: do those who think you should have to disclose everything you know have pins on their phones? Think Apple shouldn't be encrypting phone data?