Hi all,
I think that the issue is definitely not the government getting hold of what
is on one iPhone, which was confiscated a while ago, but getting the legal
sanction for breaking into all cell phones of any one of us, and keeping
track of what each of us are doing or talking about, or what those we
communicate with may be doing or talking about with others, even if it
doesn't involve the person whose cell phone was broken into...
Also, sadly, interrogating people in person may or may not produce true
information, since most people can be intimidated into saying whatever
interrogators want to hear sooner or later. There are a lot of people who
are in prison in this country, convicted of both non-political and political
crimes, because of forced confessions. So interrogation of captured suspects
shouldn't necessarily be expected to be a meaningful alternative to breaking
into cell phones.
For justice and peace,
Sylvie
from Carl Jarvis:
The actions of the FBI in searching for ways of sneaking into all our
private on-line conversations, should scare the sox off us all. The
trouble is that we are dealing with something outside the average
citizen's experience. If we were to elect a crazy president, and
after assuming office he ordered the military to attack all our major
cities, we would rise up in alarm and anger, doing what we had to do
in order to protect ourselves. But when the attack comes from outer
space...the internet, we are unable to see that the end result will be
the same.
Carl Jarvis
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From: "Martian.Lady" <martian.lady@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] Yediot Achronot: Israeli
Tech Company is ‘Outside Source’ Offering to Hack Terrorist’s iPhone for FBI
HI
Perhaps this wouldn't be as much of a problem if the powers that be
weren't so quick to kill anyone who is a terrorist. Perhaps we could learn
more from a live person than a cell phone.
Marsha