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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by peteretep on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:24AM (#11318103)

    >>> Selective service is a back-up plan that has not been
    >>> used

    >> Except for WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam

    > Yes, they were drafted
That's because Selective Service "is a back-up plan that has not been used" is a falsehood.

    > And since then the draft has been abolished
"the draft" has not been abolished any more than "war is over". The specific drafts for each conflict are finished because the conflicts are finished. The US retains the right to draft its citizens in law, and it (in contrast to many other states) actively maintains a whole government agency just for that, and remains the right to prosecute - to this day - 18 year old men who don't sign up. In more than half of US States, when you get a driving license, you are registered explicitly as eligible for military service.

    > Nobody got drafted into Iraq or Afghanistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-loss_policy

    > If you feel that these other things are already below that
Do I think your country compelling you to kill people is lower than your country compelling you to patch a binary? I guess I do, on account of not being deranged.
Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by jacquesm on Saturday March 19, 2016 @10:06AM (#11318567)
My country can no more compel me to kill people than that it can compel me to write software.