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What me worry about Windows 10 privacy? Watch this.

Feb 17, 2016 5:00PM PST

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Apple's Letter to their customers.
Feb 17, 2016 6:27PM PST
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Sounds not unsimilar to some technologies
Feb 18, 2016 1:49AM PST

that would require a gun to validate the user's identity before it would fire. Such guns, if stolen, would need to be modified or hacked in order to be used or sold. In cases that require knowledge of whether a specific weapon was used via ballistics test, this could require some creativity or a back door made available by the manufacturer that would only be released to certain authorities. More job security for hackers and lawyers would surely come from this.

Apple's own statement reads that their product has become essential. It's a tool that can be, and is actually being used as a weapon in both a physical and virtual sense. I suppose the question to be asked is whether or not a manufacturer has any responsibility in cases where their product can be deliberately used to cause harm. Didn't Alfred Nobel face this same dilemma?

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While I didn't see the phone as the gun.
Feb 18, 2016 6:44AM PST
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The could try the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Feb 18, 2016 9:39AM PST

and try to get a mandatory recall of the devices based on personal and public threat of harm. I've seen a few recalls for which some of the lamest reasons were given. I can't register an opinion on this one but there's nothing unusual about our government wanting to punish the majority for the sins of the few.

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RE: to punish the majority
Feb 18, 2016 11:01AM PST

As long as a person doesn't suffer any consequences from what someone else (the Government) knows....

How is a person "punished"?

The fear of wondering WHEN...NOT IF.... they will suffer consequences?

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Any comments on the topic itself?...
Feb 18, 2016 11:18AM PST

which appears to be about the government searching for a way to impose itself when there's no clear mandate?...only an old phrase of law that was never tweeted between the those who first drew it up? Care to speak to that before challenging another person's response?

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RE: when there's no clear mandate?
Feb 18, 2016 12:56PM PST
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Yes. That really speaks volumes
Feb 18, 2016 1:59PM PST

to the scrape between the NSA and Apple.

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We suffer the costs. Which is "classified"
Feb 18, 2016 11:20AM PST

So getting the real number is guessing. I read numbers from 50 and more billion dollars.

Anyhow, I hope folk watch the NSA Chief interview.

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An so it begins. 175 more iPhones to be cracked.
Feb 18, 2016 11:35AM PST
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RE: What, me worry?
Feb 18, 2016 12:49PM PST