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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the gettin-the-camel's-nose-under-the-tent dept.

AG Barr seeks 'legislative solution' to make companies unlock phones:

ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Brett Max Kaufman responded to [US Attorney General] Barr's comments, saying "Every time there's a traumatic event requiring investigation into digital devices, the Justice Department loudly claims that it needs backdoors to encryption, and then quietly announces it actually found a way to access information without threatening the security and privacy of the entire world. The boy who cried wolf has nothing on the agency that cried encryption." While Barr's push for backdoors and cooperation from phone manufacturers raises concerns, Kaufman's response doesn't address that the DoJ isn't seeking the ability to unlock phones, but to do so as quickly as possible.

Apple's refusal to work with law enforcement has been an issue for years. The company wants to ensure its users feel confident in trusting Apple with their data, yet police and the FBI say that the refusals to cooperate hinder investigations and put lives at risk. It sounds like Barr wants to put a system into law that would oblige Apple to comply in future cases. How realistic this plan is -- or how much buy-in from politicians it will get -- remains to be seen, though it would force Apple to rethink how it approaches user privacy.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:04PM (14 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:04PM (#996468) Homepage

    There seems to be a big push for legalizing things that the government has been doing illegally for years, one example being Grand Emperor-for-Life Baraq Hussein Soetoro's legalizing domestic use of propaganda on Americans, to the Senate legalizing warrantless browser history checking, to whatever else. Keep any eye out for further attempts to legalize what the government has already been illegally doing for years. It's a lot like their insider trading, Ex Post Facto will work for them but work against you.

    Apple and other big tech have been very willing bitches of foreign and domestic governments for many years, and we received hard confirmation of this with the leak of the PRISM slides years ago. Now Apple can pretend that never happened and as a bonus won't even have to release public statements to cry any kind of crocodile tears whenever the next iPhone using FBI patsy commits a mass-shooting.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:58PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:58PM (#996497)

    Get a job shit posting leech.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:13PM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:13PM (#996504) Journal

      What's the over/under on whether he already has one?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:23PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:23PM (#996512)

        He already said he is unemployed, hard to imagine him getting a job right now with thousands of better people available.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:15PM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:15PM (#996507) Homepage

      I tried to join the JIDF but they pay about as much as Amazon's Mechanical Turk. I tried to join Unit 8200's Automated Shitpost Division as a context programmer, but I failed the panel interview. They invited me to Slashdot Headquarters over in Barrio Logan for a staredown by two big-ass Jews named Herschel and Ibrahim, then once I stared back and didn't flinch the two brought me up to Timothy's office. Timothy offered me some brandy in a crystal snifter and remarked that "we" could do "great business together," but after realizing that he poured me a snifter full of Jenkem, I splashed it into his face and jumped out the second-story window onto a low-rider parked downstairs, my fall broken by a fat puta with a peroxide bleach job.

      But damn, they do have good burritos down there.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:26PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:26PM (#996516)

        You DO realize Trump is a racist right? Oh who am I kidding, of course you do. But do you have the cahones to admit it?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:16PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:16PM (#996508) Journal

    That's just how Republicans roll...

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by meustrus on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:43PM (7 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:43PM (#996531)

    Grand Emperor-for-Life Baraq Hussein Soetoro's

    I too remember a time when our Dear Leaders left office at the end of their term and gracefully conceded lost elections. It's too bad so wonderful (have mercy!) we now live in an America where the election results are pre-ordained and voting itself is dangerous, possibly even illegal, for significant portions of the population.

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    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday May 19 2020, @09:46PM (6 children)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @09:46PM (#996569)

      Or, just ignore the will of the people [wikipedia.org] by passing legislation after the election is lost that removes power from the incoming candidate.

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 19 2020, @10:42PM (5 children)

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @10:42PM (#996602)

        Lame duck is part of the playing field, like Gerrymandering - it's shameful how much it's abused, but it is by definition legal.

        If the newly elected have sufficient power, they can repeal the offensive lame duck legislation, if they don't - this is the game they are all playing. Too bad the voters don't seem to care about forthrightness or honor in their elected representatives, if they did they'd punish those who engage in this crap.

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        • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:08AM (4 children)

          by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:08AM (#996645)

          That sounds like a shitty way to run a country.

          • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:18AM (3 children)

            by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:18AM (#996673)

            When I was in public school, I was very impressed with how many shitty kids there were in school. The ratio of decent to shitty got much better in college, but apparently the public school kids vote now, but never grew up.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:56AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:56AM (#996790)

              If you want anymore proof of that, look at how they behave at children's sports games or how many walk around in their letter jacket.

            • (Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:40PM (1 child)

              by Oakenshield (4900) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:40PM (#996874)

              I was surprised at the change in many of the shitty kids at my 15 year high school reunion. They had transformed into actual human beings. A small handful that seemed normal or even quiet in high school turned into douche-bags. And one who was a major douche-bag and a giant bully in high school now spends his days on Facebook raging at Trump and conservatives. Alas... Still a bully and a douche-bag but now he wants to think he believes in a cause.

              • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:12PM

                by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:12PM (#996888)

                In my town, the ones who didn't leave after graduation didn't change... continued to swap partners for another 15 years, but with marriages and babies thrown into the drama. The saddest of the sad dumbshits did apparently find each other and stick together, every so often when visiting home I'd see some not too surprising new couples in the rear-view while driving around town. One girl who was down with hepatitis through most of high school did "come out" as life of the party at the 10 year reunion, so says my in-town spy who went to the party and told me about it, but... stories of growth and maturity? Not nearly as common as stories of fattening, hair loss, premature greying, and continued douchery.

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