Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Tim Cook traveling down Creepy Road
The latest news from the Tim Cook vs. Federal Gov't fight over Apple encryption is the FBI may have found a third party way to open up the dead San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone. I'm fairly libertarian myself and at first blush his position sounds good and brave and other swell things but I got to thinking. Our country is already rife with perverts, the mentally unbalanced, online predators and yes I'm sure there are some terrorists scattered about and he would seem to be saying these groups need to have their privacy and data protected as well. Cyberstalking is a big subject these days and feminists have been a driving force behind the ever-evolving legislation but strangely I don't hear them criticizing Tim Cook and Apple. Another huge terror attack today in Europe this time in Brussels but Mr. Cook continues to dig down deeper into his Snowdenian position which is somehow supposed to get us to buy more Apple products. I for one am sticking with Android with its myriad problems from incompatible apps to slow-charging Samsung tablets but at least it's a stand. I have long agreed with Hannity, as soon as the government or law enforcement wants to get inside your head and police your mind that's totalitarianism plain and simple but these other folks I'm talking about ain't just thinking things they're already breaking the law in some fashion. I'm not taking a pro-government position here, I'm at best sometimes ambivalent about law enforcement in this country but do you want to give the worst elements of society that high-tech advantage?
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A big business accidently protecting terrorists presents a bit of an enigma, no? Given that the big business spends a lot of effort using the same data to know everything about
ReplyDeleteyou, while resisting a critical piece of criminal investigation, I'm gonna go with the FBI. But then, my POV
has been that Big Biz is far more detrimental to society and culture than Big Gov, admittedly a bit of bias. I've never had an Apple product other than the kind you get in
the produce section.
Cook makes it sound like everyone's looking up hemorrhoids or anal cancer or diaper fetishes and he's protecting your privacy right to do this. The gov't has made it clear this is one specific case only and that they're not looking to know if your neighbor autofellated himself once.
ReplyDeleteI was doing good keeping up until you got to autofellation, and then it all fell apart.
ReplyDeleteAutofellation: the position of your automobile when all four tires simultaneously go flat?
DeleteYou wonder at work when somebody gets a bad back. They're a little drunk one night, seems rational at the time...
DeleteI'd have to be a little more than a little drunk.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about Wikipedia and their portals is they can discuss anything in the most neutral manner (citation needed).
ReplyDeleteISIL second in command confirmed killed. One down...
ReplyDeleteISIL is like a hydra. If we get Baghdadi there's already probably ten other caliphs campaigning for the position.
DeleteMcCain's Whack-A-Mole. Cruz wants to nuke the backyard. Silicon Valley has resisted ISIL recruiting on twitter/facebook, but since they have
Deletereluctantly begun monitoring and deleting, ISIL recruitment is down. They are a heavily internetted
bunch of mad bombers, ya know?
Their bomb experts prefer Mother of Satan because it is difficult to detect with nitro sniffers. It is so sensitive that
Deletefrequent detonations during assembly occur, perhaps
whacking a few more moles?
& through it all Tim Cook sticks to his position and the academics are supporting him.
DeleteA couple people I know have had their e-mail accounts hacked just in the last week. All sorts of ads from Poland, France and Pittsfield, MA shooting out under their name. Thanks, Mr. Cook.
DeleteIt's amazing how easy it is to get info on people. I don't do doxxing but sometimes somebody unfamiliar will call your cell. If you call back you might get a virus so I google the #. I just wanna know their name not their address, email and social accounts. These reverse phone lookup sites you get a skeevey and creepy vibe.
ReplyDeleteFBI, with some Israeli tech help, cracks Tim Cook's fancy encryption. Now he is madder yet and wants
ReplyDeleteFBI to share the technique so he can make a more powerful encryption. Probably sue them back. How come any run of the mill hacker can wiggle into the stuff but the experts can't?
Stalkers, online predators, cyberbullies and would be jihadi wannabes never had it so good. I'm honestly not getting his position here. I thought he would soften up by now and rethink things. I was also wondering about Chris's position on the Apple encryption but looks like he found religion.
ReplyDelete"Found religion..."
DeleteWhat is that supposed to mean?
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DeleteDidn't mean to irk, just a figure of speech. My question is is Tim Cook's position the official libertarian position on this?
DeleteI wasn't irked so not worries. I haven't "found" religion. I was baptized a Catholic and have always been a Catholic. I just seldom weigh in on issue or subject of religion/faith, etc.
DeleteNo idea what any official libertarian position is. I was just stating my own.
Re: The Apple encryption, if one opts to store their data "in the cloud", all that means is that it is sitting on someone else's server. In that regard I guess you can't be too surprised one it ends up getting sold to the highest bidder.
ReplyDeleteI'm a proponent of encryption. As I said previously, a factory reset on a phone results in no recoverable data during a forensic imaging attempt using either of the 2 most popular eDiscovery tools on the market. Whether government agencies have additional tools at their disposal is another thing. I tend to doubt it as other government agencies such as SEC, DOJ, DEA, etc. utilize the same tools that we use.
I was researching this and it doesn't really surprise me but some police agencies have ways of remotely hacking into someone's smartphone and God knows what else they can do so I'm with BB. I think the gov't and law enforcement have more tools at their disposal than they're letting on. Those Google Chrome incognito tabs with the little detective in the upper left-hand corner, BFD!!! & those security apps with private browsing like you can roam the web and nobody'll know. Yeah right:)
ReplyDeleteIt's not say that no-one will ever know it is simply to say that they would have to expend far more resources to figure it out if you are utilizing those tools. Given that fact, it then begs the question about the likeliness that they would.
DeletePresumably, you lock the door and windows to your abode. This too isn't to suggest that no-one can or would break in. It simply means that it'd require much more effort to do so.
Apple goes to great lengths to protect a murderous
Deleteterrorist, yet
"Despite that new privacy marketing push, Apple’s track record is hardly spotless. Last year the company took flak from privacy advocates when it was revealed that its Spotlight search tool shares user queries and even location data to Apple’s servers, albeit tied to a temporary user ID. And a much larger privacy scandal rocked the company in September of last year when hackers revealed collections of nude celebrity photos they’d pulled from iCloud backups—in many cases, users didn’t even know their photos had been uploaded to the cloud by default." Follow the money. A rotten
Apple spoils the barrel.
What I don't get is I thought you could go to jail for defying a court order. Let Bob Smith try that.
DeleteA small price to pay if there be a greater and more sinister plot.
DeleteA small price to pay if there be a greater and more sinister plot.
DeleteI have quit using websites that ask for a user name and password. Not only would my password list be thicker and more complicated than a nuclear code, but the process is just another data collection for retailers. Passwords are
ReplyDeleteridiculous and PINs a bother. We who
grew up in the 40s just went to any shop and town and they
knew who we were.
Ditto. I keep a little notepad of all the usernames and passwords I've accumulated just to apply for jobs and I really don't need them anymore. One is tempted to use the same username but they say not to do that. In the old days I walked into a place and if the manager took a liking to me he shook my hand and I was working three days later.
DeleteYou can use the same password but probably best to use variants of it.
DeleteMy Dog Spot
My_Dog_Spot
^^yD0g$pot
That's alot better than the way I'm doing it now which sucks.
DeleteIf you choose like two or even 3 different passwords and then just use standard variants (zeros for O's, dollar signs for S's, etc. ) you will not have as much hassle.
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