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Re:San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud pas... by rhino369 on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:40PM (#11141572)
>The problem is, Apple has to fight this now because once they've done this once, they're in a losing position when the government wants it done 800 more times.

Since each of those 800 times will used after court issued a legal warrant, that is actually good.

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Re:San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud pas... by msbarnett on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:50PM (#11141610)
Suffice to say, we appear to be operating off of entirely incompatible definitions of "good"
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Re:San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud pas... by travoc on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:03PM (#11141953)
Which countries will be issuing these good warrants? All of them?
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Re:San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud pas... by rhizome on Saturday February 20, 2016 @09:37PM (#11143031)
All except the bad ones. They'll be prohibited by statute from taking advantage of any of this.
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Re:San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud pas... by ryao on Sunday February 21, 2016 @12:13PM (#11145321)
That is until they for torture someone to get around it.
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