they did not exist until recently and we survived so, somehow, we managed.

A phone is just a digital filing cabinet, no different from any other device or structure needing a warrant to search.
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This is a terrible idea. If the government wants to access people's personal devices, it should get better sleuths and better technology not force private companies to make devices less safe for everyone. If the police or whoever want to crack open a private individual's device, it's entirely the police's problem. If the FBI are not good enough, well, tough luck. They need to try harder. Remember that if it's easier for police to access a device, it's also easy for hackers and criminals to do so.

Besides, if American devices become easy to access, people will start opting for devices and software made in other countries which are not bound by American rules. American companies will start losing business. I hope that Tim Cook does not give up the fight. It's a good cause.

to grin and bear for the purpose of "party unity."

You're damn right sweetheart.

Reasons to like her, this. And it's a strong one.

will help dig up dirt on anyone they feel like. Or put some there, as necessary.

Why would you think that's what he means?
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Why do you make me do this, Obama?

Politicians and lawyers think they can create a soft division, unfortunately mathematics (which is at the heart here) is a cold mistress with an all or nothing approach.

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and it sunk like a stone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511465887

Obama is NOT a friend when it comes to civil liberties. He has proven this time and time again.

This is horrible. Everyone knows these requests are mostly for drug cases. The war on terror is an excuse to rebrand the failed and unpopular drug war. Obama supports this? Extremely disappointing.

He is playing these lame-ass tropes?

Really? Lumping terrorism and taxes together? Wow.

How are they supposed to know if you are speeding if they can't hack your smart phone?

And it's as wrong as can be. I'm getting real tired of 'terrah' being used at every opportunity to peel away just a little more rights. It pissed me off when LittleBoots and Darth did it, and it offends me all to hell when a Democrat does it!

Taxes, indeed.

Instead, it sounds like he is trying to influence the judge's opinion in this specific case.

that is the law.

... they just don't have the know-how.

That's what they want from Apple.

What the government is demanding is essentially equivalent to telling a lock manufacturer to fabricate a skeleton key and then advising everyone with those locks on their front door that they have nothing to be worried about, because hackers simply won't have access to that key. Trust us.

Nothing will be handed over to the FBI other than an unlocked phone.
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The gov't could do this themselves, but they want legal precedent to get into ALL OUR PHONES.

Fuck them and their water-carrying agents...cough.

Obama and friends could start with, oh I don't know, preventing U.S. corp's from parking all or most of their income offshore...
as a condition of their corporate charter. (Pause for laughter.)

Sounds so quaint, but is the U.S. really helpless to stop other countries (many of which are allies) from boosting their economies with untaxed U.S. corporate income?

... and this is how he chooses to spend it. He ain't gonna spend it on you or fighting for your issues.

He pushes bad trade deals like TPP and H-1B visas, and conservative nominations to important positions.

This is who Obama is, always was, and always will be — a third-way corporatist who cloaks himself in a progressive-looking suit.

The only thing we can do about it is to vote optimally in this upcoming election.