Discussion for article #246926
It could also contain a map to Atlantis! Let’s violate the Constitution so we can find out. The suspense is killing me!
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send it to Patricia Arquette and Ted Danson at CSI:Cyber…
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… not to mention a completely fleshed-out unified field theory, the real identity of god, and the whereabouts of Judge Crater.
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Bullshit. I’m so tired of my government lying to me in order to weaken my privacy. It’s disgusting.
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I think I heard a noise! OHMIGOD, there’s a magic baby unicorn trapped in the iPhone!! Quick, we have to crack it and get it out or it’ll starve!! Why would you let a helpless baby unicorn starve, you monsters?!?!
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…as well as the final resting places of Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia Earhart and the recipe for the world’s best egg salad sanwich.
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Credibility? We don’t need no stinking credibility.
Unknown call? It was probably the doctor’s automated appointment confirmation service calling for the 3rd time to confirm an appt for next Tuesday the 22nd.
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I would rather hear the FBI explain how they made a major mistake when it gave instructions to the county employees to remotely change the phone’s password BEFORE they had a chance to examined it! There may be a good reason, but I have not heard them explain why that was done.
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“What if”, “There could be”. Sounds like the FBI wants to go on a fishing expedition. Probably all they are going to find is that he missed his last appointment.
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While it’s an interesting legal issue, please cite how this would violate the Constitution?
Law enforcement searches have two purposes:
- Finding out what went down
- Obtaining evidence to convict someone for what went down.
If you already know exactly what went down, you don’t do an investigative for the first purpose. If you don’t know, it is always a what if.
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This is absolutely ridiculous. Metadata can’t be encrypted. What that means is that the authorities already have the means to find out who the suspects talked to and when they did it. Any additional attackers the suspects communicated with would already be identified even if they authorities didn’t know what the contents of that communication was.
In this day and age the authorities have access to far more data than they have ever had in history. They just don’t have access to 100% of the contents of what we say to others.
Continuing with the government’s line of thought, we should be required by law to wear cameras and microphones hooked into a government’s data warehouse at all times. After all one day the government might get a search order to find out what we said to our friends and we need to preserve that capability for them. /sarcasm
It’s widely believed that the government doesn’t expect anything useful to be found on the phone. This whole theater is for the sole purpose of establishing a president they can use in the future, They’ve latched onto this case because they think crying terrorism will shut down most people’s rational thinking and let them get what they want. The absurd claims made here are proving that theory to be true.
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Perhaps the county could order Apple to create a time machine instead. That way, they could just go back and stop the terrorists before they got started. And kill baby Hitler.
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More likely a scam-phishing call from Louisiana or Florida.
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Forget this phone. I want to know what messages were on Tom Brady’s phone!
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They fucked up, that’s why we aren’t hearing about THAT.
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Let’s review the bidding. Murderers have three phones. All the calls and texts made by all three phones can be traced. Murderers destroy two of the phones beyond recovery (Actually, not necessarily if someone really wanted to spend enough money on the forensics, but we’ll ignore that for now). The third phone, which is owned by someone else – and the murderers know the someone else has the capability to to access the phone, because it’s in their employment contract – is not destroyed, not (apparently) is its data wiped. Odds that this phone contains any information crucial for investigating the crime?
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Well now you’re just being ridiculous. There’s no such thing.