TYT: Apple No Longer Letting Government In Your Backdoor

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Apple is in the middle of a bitter debate involving your privacy and wether or not prosecutors can use backdoors in order to get encrypted information. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"A newly unsealed court transcript shows that Apple doesn’t just support its average customers’ right to encrypted communications: It even stands up to the government over meth dealers’ phones...

At the time of the hearing, Apple seemed obstinate, warning in its publicly filed briefing that it wasn’t going to perform this task on future cases. “In most cases now and in the future, the government’s requested order would be substantially burdensome, as it would be impossible to perform,” lawyers for the company wrote. Future operating systems like iOS8 and the current iOS9 are designed to be impenetrable by even Apple itself, it said.”*

Read more here: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/apple-unlock-iphone-court/

[Atman]

1. Damn Apple! The government will soon require everyone to have an Android phone...

...which anyone can hack into. I think if you dial #666 you get a direct link to the NSA to dump all of the data on your phone. Maybe that's just a rumor.