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Bill Gates denies iPhone crack demand would set precedent

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Re: Flawed

actually if you read up on the technical side of what they are asking for is that the version would be valid only with this specific phone, not every single phone.

Well, yes, if you were to only look at the court order and ignore the larger game at play here. If it was possible to execute the court order in absolute isolation, the limiting language in the court order would apply, and then it would be that one iPhone 5C with whatever ALLEGED flaw (let's not forget that Apple has not made any statements as to the feasibility of what is proposed yet) should be somehow broken by Apple, and we assume here that Apple would have that capability.

The problem is that this is simply not how US law works and worse, the judge as well as the FBI damn well know this. The very fact that said parties are thus trying to bamboozle the public (and politicians) at large with such a fairly transparent attempt at diversion is alarming in itself, and is a hint of what is really behind this.

The "terrorist" aspect is but camouflage, and it's not even really about Apple either.

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