Instead of Apple tasking a coder to work on cracking that iPhone...

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Thu Feb 25 03:14:56 PST 2016


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On 02/25/2016 01:45 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 04:06:27PM -0800, Rayzer wrote:
>> FWIW I don't see how the feds can force Apple to assign an
>> employee to do anything not in their job description without
>> violating that employee's contract, or their civil rights,
>> and writing code to crack phones isn't in any Apple job
>> description, but tightening phone security is...
>> 
> 
> I am pretty sure this won't stop Apple if they want to unlock
> it.
> 
> Are you familiar with their job descriptions (I am not)?
> 
> According to links here from this month, few years ago Apple
> unlocked many phones per feds requests.

That would be this article by Declan McCullagh:

https://tinyurl.com/zve7maf

iPhones are so user friendly that they include pre-installed
forensic tools for their users in the LEA and DoD community:

https://tinyurl.com/z6fll9r

OSX is also very friendly to users who might want to know about
every file ever downloaded by a Mac they have access to:

https://tinyurl.com/ctkambp

iTunes included a "defect" that LEAs used as a back door into user
systems for three years, per the UK Telegraph:

https://tinyurl.com/7zfubdz

Apple owes it to their shareholders to market to the U.S.
Department of Defense, including participation in bidding on the
most powerful end user identification, tracking, surveillance,
manipulation and targeting platform that has ever been publicly
disclosed:

http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Romas/COIN

Apple markets its products as fashion accessories for Liberal Arts
majors; keeping the Apple brand's public image intact via a cost
effective Big Lie propaganda program is the least it can do for
its shareholders.

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








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