The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly Hack its Phones Too

Re:The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly H... by studentrob on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:31PM (#11179804)

Wow. They must think there's a way to let government officials have secure communications without letting criminals have secure communications.

Either everyone can have access to locks, Mr. Cameron, or nobody has locks. And by the way, since locks already exist, and since they are in the form of software which can be replicated across the world in seconds, and in the brains of people across the world, it's going to be impossible to enforce the no-locks law without introducing the world described by George Orwell in his seminal work, 1984.

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Re:The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly H... by themartorana on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:01AM (#11179884)

It's as though government officials are perfectly happy with keeping their heads in the sand - they can't grasp (or more probably won't ) the fact that a security hole USA vulnerability, and it will be exploited.

And that exploit will be worked on from hour one.

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Re:The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly H... by SixSigma on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:22AM (#11180704)

> the world described by George Orwell in his seminal work, 1984.

The world where management was under constant scrutiny but proles not ?

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Re:The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly H... by acqq on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:05AM (#11180971)

> The world where management was under constant scrutiny but proles not?

In "1984" the "proles" weren't constantly monitored, but they also had no influence to anything.

But you are right, the techological capabilities of today seem to surpass the imagination of the author writing the book 70 years ago.

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