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poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
do you still have to ask the queen for permission before youre allowed to browse porn lol

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theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

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poty posted:

do you still have to ask the queen for permission before youre allowed to browse porn lol

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

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good luck apple, you will need it


DoJ files motion to compel Apple to comply with FBI order

The Justice Department is seeking to force Apple to comply with an order to help the FBI crack a phone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, CNBC confirmed Friday.
Apple previously had been given an additional three days to respond to the order, with a Feb. 26 deadline. Apple CEO Tim Cook and other tech executives denounced the request this week amid a renewed debate over how much access firms should give authorities to investigate or prevent attacks.

considering they aren't requiring a custom decrypted firmware, just a timeout nullification, Apple has no case

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
even if they were asking for firmware that removed the lock or encryption entirely, theres no reason apple couldn't lock it to that firmware and/or invalidate the image immediately after its unlocked. you could litterrally flash it, unlock + remove passcode, flash back to default os and then destroy that first image and revoke its signature so even if somehow someone got a copy and then somehow managed to remove the components that lock it to the device without violating the signature, then it still wouldn't work cause the signature would have been invalidated by the revocation list.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

The major point is the precedent that opens the flood gates for other requests, the trick by the government is to make the case look reasonable and a one-off but it is not just "one phone" that is targeted the legal process affects all devices with any level of security.

Flooding the newswires today obviously:

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Feb 19, 2016

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
if we were to succumb to the rule of law, even once, it would open the floodgates. there would be no end to the onerous legislation the government would place upon us, expecting us to follow every law on the books

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

bet they don't even find anything important on the phone

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

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the best part is the COUNTY owns it, not the user.

they have permission from the owner, it's just Apple

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

infernal machines posted:

if we were to succumb to the rule of law, even once, it would open the floodgates. there would be no end to the onerous legislation the government would place upon us, expecting us to follow every law on the books

Depends whether you live in Ferguson?

This was covered in an episode of Bones recently, the Jeffersonian where the forensic team work is federal and thus follows federal law despite being in Virginia where the state law allows medical marijuana. Seeley and Camille are all hyped up about following the federal law as the principle of their job. One intern Wendell Bray has bone cancer and was using marijuana and had to be fired as a permanent employee but could be employed as a consultant. At the end of the episode Bones and Seeley list how many more local laws they have broken.

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

it may be reasonable for the FBI to access that phone and perhaps apple will even do it for them after they defeat the feds in court

but apple should still fight them and invoke their 1st amendment right and take this all the way to the supreme court if need be. cause otherwise the precedent would be set that law enforcement can get anyone to weaken or change their product to suit the needs of some random investigation, whether that is for terrorism or just a local cop trying to go after some drug dealer

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
No you guys this is the erosion of civil liberties to perform terrorism and have your saved emails not able to be read because it would take way too long to brute force your iPhone

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm a big dumb idiot from the UK who doesn't understand US law and makes a big show of it

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

MrMoo posted:

The major point is the precedent that opens the flood gates for other requests, the trick by the government is to make the case look reasonable and a one-off but it is not just "one phone" that is targeted the legal process affects all devices with any level of security.

Flooding the newswires today obviously:



first off the feds will get access. period. theres no scenario here where they don't. the difference is that if apple gives them access now they can limit the precedent to a single phone. apple writes software that only works to decrypt that phone. for future cases this means yes the feds can get access to phones, but they have to get a court order and then apple or whoever does it for that phone. the effect is limited to phones involved in active investigations.

if apple doesn't give in now, the feds will just say "ok well these companies aren't helpful so we're just going to require backdoors in everything." that will affect everyone

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

cremnob posted:

it may be reasonable for the FBI to access that phone and perhaps apple will even do it for them after they defeat the feds in court

but apple should still fight them and invoke their 1st amendment right and take this all the way to the supreme court if need be. cause otherwise the precedent would be set that law enforcement can get anyone to weaken or change their product to suit the needs of some random investigation, whether that is for terrorism or just a local cop trying to go after some drug dealer

the law already requires many other companies to weaken the privacy of their products for government benefit. apple doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

i wish your stupid country didn't make it so easy to buy guns

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

Shaggar posted:

the law already requires many other companies to weaken the privacy of their products for government benefit. apple doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

CALEA requires that for telephone companies and carriers, it specifically does not include tech companies like apple so you're wrong about that. in the future there might be legislation that covers tech companies mandating backdoors, but that is not the case now.

theres a reason why they're using the All Writs Act and its cause there is no other legislation that covers this

apple will invoke their first amendment right against being compelled to write this software for the feds and its gonna be epic

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
in the absence of a specific law dealing with phones, the all writs act applies and when looking at previous law for hints at what congress might approve, CALEA makes it clear that congress wants the feds to have access to this kind of information.

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

cremnob posted:

CALEA requires that for telephone companies and carriers, it specifically does not include tech companies like apple so you're wrong about that. in the future there might be legislation that covers tech companies mandating backdoors, but that is not the case now.

theres a reason why they're using the All Writs Act and its cause there is no other legislation that covers this

apple will invoke their first amendment right against being compelled to write this software for the feds and its gonna be epic

they don't have a first amendment right to not do what the government tells them

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Aug 2, 2004

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cremnob posted:

CALEA requires that for telephone companies and carriers, it specifically does not include tech companies like apple so you're wrong about that. in the future there might be legislation that covers tech companies mandating backdoors, but that is not the case now.

theres a reason why they're using the All Writs Act and its cause there is no other legislation that covers this

apple will invoke their first amendment right against being compelled to write this software for the feds and its gonna be epic

but they aren't writing anything, they are commenting out timeouts and resigning it.

depends on what judge president trump gives us

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

Shaggar posted:

they don't have a first amendment right to not do what the government tells them

code is speech according to the court of appeals for the 9th circuit. even if apple fails to successfully argue against the order under the All Writs Act, which they have a pretty decent shot at, they can easily argue that this order is compelled speech and that it infringes their first amendment right

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
code is only speech in that it can be used to generate speech. you cant limit the creation of code for use in generating speech, but that doesn't mean you cant control software for other purposes or compel someone to write software.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Shaggar posted:

first off the feds will get access. period. theres no scenario here where they don't. the difference is that if apple gives them access now they can limit the precedent to a single phone. apple writes software that only works to decrypt that phone. for future cases this means yes the feds can get access to phones, but they have to get a court order and then apple or whoever does it for that phone. the effect is limited to phones involved in active investigations.

if apple doesn't give in now, the feds will just say "ok well these companies aren't helpful so we're just going to require backdoors in everything." that will affect everyone

Even CNN has covered this well, backdoors in the phones is pointless users will just use encryption software and that software can be made outside of US jurisdiction. It will damage US industry as US made products will no longer be favourable due to government snooping and interference*.

I like the drama response of the privacy advocates: ISIS are terrorizing the US because of the civil liberties enjoyed, if you remove privacy the US becomes no better than the ISIS.

* I wonder if anyone would really care as they don't really care much now.

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

and actually the first amendment and the constitution exactly protects u from things the government might tell u to do!!

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

MrMoo posted:

Even CNN has covered this well, backdoors in the phones is pointless users will just use encryption software and that software can be made outside of US jurisdiction. It will damage US industry as US made products will no longer be favourable due to government snooping and interference*.

I like the drama response of the privacy advocates: ISIS are terrorizing the US because of the civil liberties enjoyed, if you remove privacy the US becomes no better than the ISIS.

* I wonder if anyone would really care as they don't really care much now.

yes there are lots of good things to consider in a legislative process which would make legislation pretty limited once tech companies have input on the process

apple and the rest of tech shouldnt let the courts have an end run around that process

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

MrMoo posted:

Even CNN has covered this well, backdoors in the phones is pointless users will just use encryption software and that software can be made outside of US jurisdiction. It will damage US industry as US made products will no longer be favourable due to government snooping and interference*.

I like the drama response of the privacy advocates: ISIS are terrorizing the US because of the civil liberties enjoyed, if you remove privacy the US becomes no better than the ISIS.

* I wonder if anyone would really care as they don't really care much now.

right. for average consumers they will continue using the bad crypto with backdoors that apple will have created. criminals will use good crypto. better for apple to cave now and avoid the blanket backdoor.


cremnob posted:

and actually the first amendment and the constitution exactly protects u from things the government might tell u to do!!

ok then im not gonna pay taxes anymore cause 1st amendment.

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

MrMoo posted:

Even CNN has covered this well, backdoors in the phones is pointless users will just use encryption software and that software can be made outside of US jurisdiction. It will damage US industry as US made products will no longer be favourable due to government snooping and interference*.

I like the drama response of the privacy advocates: ISIS are terrorizing the US because of the civil liberties enjoyed, if you remove privacy the US becomes no better than the ISIS.

* I wonder if anyone would really care as they don't really care much now.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
if code is speech, how to crypto export restrictions work?

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Aug 2, 2004

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cremnob posted:

and actually the first amendment and the constitution exactly protects u from things the government might tell u to do!!

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.[1]

no

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000



obviously, all the presidential candidates being super stars here.

quote:

19-Feb-2016 15:33

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C., Feb 19 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on Friday for a boycott of Apple Inc AAPL.O products until the tech giant agrees to U.S. government demands that it unlock the cellphone of one of the killers in the San Bernardino, California, attack.

"Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information,” Trump said at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. "It just occurred to me."

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Feb 19, 2016

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

infernal machines posted:

if code is speech, how to crypto export restrictions work?

its not and they don't.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Shaggar posted:

its not and they don't.

yes, it was rhetorical. but if code were considered speech, export restrictions couldn't exist

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

read this https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/04/21-29

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Code is a commodity y'all. Sorry you work at a company so far in the dumpster you never had to understand congressional trade laws

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice
the eff is literally a bunch of fundamentalist loonies and should never be referred to for anything

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

ok but they won a case in the US court of appeals where they say that code is speech

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Aug 2, 2004

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broken clock opsec posted:

the eff is literally a bunch of fundamentalist loonies and should never be referred to for anything

and that judgement from the lower courts if from 1999, many other cases supersede it

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

you can read the ruling here

https://epic.org/crypto/export_controls/bernstein_decision_9_cir.html

theultimo posted:

and that judgement from the lower courts if from 1999, many other cases supersede it

please refer me to those cases

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Aug 2, 2004

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cremnob posted:

you can read the ruling here

https://epic.org/crypto/export_controls/bernstein_decision_9_cir.html


please refer me to those cases

libcss oh wait DVD ENCRYPTION IS FREE SPEECH yadda yadda
http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise50.html

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

quote:

Thus, cryptographers use source code to express their scientific ideas in much the same way that mathematicians use equations or economists use graphs. Of course, both mathematical equations and graphs are used in other fields for many purposes, not all of which are expressive. But mathematicians and economists have adopted these modes of expression in order to facilitate the precise and rigorous expression of complex scientific ideas.[13] Similarly, the undisputed record here makes it clear that cryptographers utilize source code in the same fashion.[14]

In light of these considerations, we conclude that encryption software, in its source code form[15] and as employed by those in the field of cryptography, must be viewed as expressive for First Amendment purposes, and thus is entitled to the protections of the prior restraint doctrine. If the government required that mathematicians obtain a prepublication license prior to publishing material that included mathematical equations, we have no doubt that such a regime would be subject to scrutiny as a prior restraint. The availability of alternate means of expression, moreover, does not diminish the censorial power of such a restraint—that Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations without resorting to equations or graphs surely would not justify governmental prepublication review of economics literature that contain these modes of expression.

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qirex
Feb 15, 2001

broken clock opsec posted:

the eff is literally a bunch of fundamentalist loonies and should never be referred to for anything

I'm still mad at them & lessig for loving up the copyright extension case so bad [not that it would have gone much differently with better lawyers & witnesses]

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