Friday, February 26, 2016

Apple vs FBI

After the San Bernadino shooting, Rizwan Farook's cell phone was found in a dumpster next to his home. It follows that the FBI wanted to de-code all the relevant information. However, they were unable to break the password and the two terrorists weren't offering to comply since they were both shot dead.
Any reasonable person would think that Apple, the maker of the smart phone, would offer the code in order to cough up the names of any others associated with the crime.
Not so. Pleading piety and the sacrosanct nature of all their customer's data, they have refused to break into the phone's archives; a memory that would no doubt reveal the names of the accomplices of America's worst terror crime since 911.
They WILL be made to comply but not until high-court action forces their hand. By that time any of the original gang of Islamists will be back in the caves of Afghanistan, ready to plot their next move using their Apple smart phones.
Yes, it's true. The lunatics really are running the asylum!

Jubilate any way.

Ian