Core Logic

Scott Hardie | February 18, 2016
Where do you stand on Apple vs. the FBI over the San Bernardino shooter's phone encryption?

Erik Bates | February 18, 2016
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Scott Hardie | February 21, 2016
I'm with Apple, too. I'm not just concerned about the precedent this sets for governments to compel Apple to expose user data, but also that once such a tool existed, it would likely fall into the hands of hackers. They can devise their own ways to access an encrypted phone; they don't need Apple to make one for them.

I don't understand the people calling for Apple to make a tool to access just this one phone that wouldn't work on any other phone. I don't think they know how software works, or the concept of a precedent.

I highly doubt that this phone has any useful information on it, anyway. The shooter went out of his way to destroy his other phones and hard drives. That he left his work phone untouched suggests that he probably conducted exactly zero terrorist activity on it. That the FBI is crossing such a line to get at data that is probably useless in the end anyway adds a shade of tragedy to the story.

Samir Mehta | February 21, 2016
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Scott Hardie | February 23, 2016
A majority of the American public supports the FBI's demand to unlock the phone. I wonder how many people would support it if, say, the shooter was a white Christian man who belonged to a Constitutionalist militia group and whose victims were Muslims.

Samir Mehta | February 23, 2016
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