bendog
Diamond Member
Yeah, if the gummit wanted the ability to read every apple phone, it'd be a totally different issue. At that point, the gummit would be taking Apple's right to build a product that people use legally with every legit expectation to privacy. (that's the Snowden angle) But no one has a right to use a product that can be legally purchased to do an illegal act. (that's like a gun)I see both points of view. The solution is simple; Apple had a tool they could pry open prior i-phones with but are claiming not for the new model. I don't believe that. When you write the code you can unwrite the code. So they take possession of the terrorist phone, open it, and hand it over to the FBI. They keep their proprietary patent and the FBI gets into the phone. Readers might remember Toyota never revealed the software glitch that made some of their vehicles accelerate out of control a few years back....Instead they paid a huge fine and promised it would stop and it has. Apple should cooperate instead of playing games.