The FBI gained to access the contents of the iPhone used by the terrorists in the California massacre, which Apple Computers had refused to provide.
Maybe the best part is that Apple Computers has no idea how it was done.
The FBI did so without any help from Apple Computers. Good. Now Apple can suffer the consequences of its foolish stance.
1. Apple security is exposed as inadequate.
2. Apple "engineers" who supposedly were considering resignation if a court order had forced them to cooperate with the FBI are now far from invaluable employees. In fact, they are on shaky ground.
3. Apple CEO looks like an even bigger fool than previously.
Good. The arrogance of Apple Computers over its silly phones has been exposed and bypassed. Good.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
USA (United States of Apple)
If Apple Computers wins its court case against the Justice Department and keeps the Apple iPhone secure for criminals or if Apple employees refuse to carry out a court order to allow the FBI to access the contents of the iPhone used by the terrorists in the California massacre, then power will quickly transfer from a constitutional elected republic to private technocrats who are neither elected nor responsible to anyone.
It's a very serious matter.
It's a very serious matter.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. should obey court orders and cooperate with FBI, etc.
This is not even a close call. Apple Computers, maker of closed proprietary systems, is fighting a legitimate court order to help the FBI gain access to an iPhone used by a terrorist in the killing of 14 co-workers in San Bernadino, CA. Apple CEO Tim Cook is making statements that sound like he's running for office or drafting an ivory tower academic paper for his PhD. Cook should just run for office. Nobody elected Tim Cook or Google co-founder Larry Page or Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Who the heck are they to be setting national policy on this?
It's clear none of those big three wants to be the first to behave responsibly and risk an hysterical backlash by its customers. So they are deluding themselves into protecting some vague pointless sense of privacy, the thing that prevents proper medical research that could substantially benefit all of us by using all our data instead of conducting these pathetic short term trials of at most a couple of thousand people. We all know someone who has needlessly died of cancer.
A couple of years ago Apple intentionally changed its operating systems to make its products invulnerable and to deny access to legitimate investigators with a court order. Neither our homes nor ourselves have such immunity. Apple has aided and abetted the enemy, giving it a tool that it did not have before. After 9/11 we read about digital messages hidden in images. Now terrorists don't need anything so esoteric. They can simply use Apple products. Maybe Apple should make that its next marketing campaign. Our stuff is so impenetrable that all the terrorists now use it.
If terrorism is too much for you to handle, think about a simple domestic kidnapping, let's say an eight year old girl. The FBI is called in and needs access to info on an iPhone. The Feds quickly get a court order but Apple fights it, defending that vague privacy thing.
And what do people want to keep private? If you ask them they don't know but they want it. If you think about it, it's so that they can cheat. What do people cheat about: money and sex. So we all have to be at additional risk so that some of us can hide how they are cheating on money and sex? That's ridiculous.
Tim Cook, tear down this wall.
It's clear none of those big three wants to be the first to behave responsibly and risk an hysterical backlash by its customers. So they are deluding themselves into protecting some vague pointless sense of privacy, the thing that prevents proper medical research that could substantially benefit all of us by using all our data instead of conducting these pathetic short term trials of at most a couple of thousand people. We all know someone who has needlessly died of cancer.
A couple of years ago Apple intentionally changed its operating systems to make its products invulnerable and to deny access to legitimate investigators with a court order. Neither our homes nor ourselves have such immunity. Apple has aided and abetted the enemy, giving it a tool that it did not have before. After 9/11 we read about digital messages hidden in images. Now terrorists don't need anything so esoteric. They can simply use Apple products. Maybe Apple should make that its next marketing campaign. Our stuff is so impenetrable that all the terrorists now use it.
If terrorism is too much for you to handle, think about a simple domestic kidnapping, let's say an eight year old girl. The FBI is called in and needs access to info on an iPhone. The Feds quickly get a court order but Apple fights it, defending that vague privacy thing.
And what do people want to keep private? If you ask them they don't know but they want it. If you think about it, it's so that they can cheat. What do people cheat about: money and sex. So we all have to be at additional risk so that some of us can hide how they are cheating on money and sex? That's ridiculous.
Tim Cook, tear down this wall.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
President Obama, just nominate yourself to the Supreme Court.
Why not? There had already been some speculation that Hillary Clinton might return the favor of being his Secretary of State and nominate Obama if she is elected president in November. But that would require a vacancy. The unexpected death yesterday of associate justice Antonin Scalia provides that opening. If Obama wants that job, he should seize it.
Talk by Republicans about leaving the seat empty until next year for Obama's successor is irresponsible in the extreme.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Antonin Scalia dies. I graduated from Xavier High School 11 years after he did.
A message that I sent today to a couple of my classmates:
Letter (about Scalia) to my former high school: Xavier magazine summer 2011. Monday, August 8, 2011
Scalia was a source of pride, our most esteemed alumnus. A few years ago he was profiled on 60 Minutes and they swung by Xavier.
I had seen the notice of his death earlier. I'm still processing. He gave a speech at Xavier a couple of years ago. I read it in the alumni magazine they send to me. Then I read it again and was annoyed that he had made a needlessly political point. I wrote to the school and stated that it was inappropriate. No reply.
Still, he was really smart and interesting and his being an Italian New Yorker only adds to my pride. The Court has lost one of its New Yorkers is how I view it. He was good friends with Ginsburg. I know a guy who knew her at Cornell.
I've never heard a Supreme Court justice who did not impress me. They're all really interesting, going back to my reading "The Brethren" by Bob Woodward. Try it. It's probably still interesting.
I'm sad about Scalia.
____________________________Letter (about Scalia) to my former high school: Xavier magazine summer 2011. Monday, August 8, 2011
Friday, February 5, 2016
clintonemail.com registered 7 days before Obama took office.
clintonemail.com
There's no home page but it is registered:
https://who.is/whois/clintonemail.com
___________________________
Barack Obama was sworn in to his first term as president on January 20, 2009, seven days after clintonemail.com was registered. For whom was it registered?
Bill Clinton had left office January 20, 2001, succeeded by George Bush the younger. Presumably Hillary Clinton had already accepted Obama's offer for her to be nominated as his Secretary of State by inauguration day 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation
Clinton Foundation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clinton Foundation Founded 1997
Founder Bill Clinton
Purpose Humanitarian
Location New York City
Area served Worldwide
The Clinton Foundation ... originally founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Foundation
_______________________
While there's a bit of confusion about when it was founded, it's clear that it's Bill's foundation. It has this website:
clintonfoundation.org
http://www.whois.com/whois/clintonfoundation.org
Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2013-04-08T17:12:26Z
Creation Date: 1999-09-30T20:53:06Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2016-09-30T20:53:06Z
Sponsoring Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC...
Registrant Name: Clinton Foundation
Registrant Organization: Clinton Foundation,,,
Admin Email:
@clintonfoundation.org
____________________
So if Hillary was supposedly using the email service of the foundation why is the domain she used clintonemail.com, which was set up at least eight years after the foundation?
Clinton’s ‘Secret’ Email Accounts By Eugene Kiely Posted on May 22, 2015
the New York Times published copies of emails that (Hillary) Clinton had sent and received when she was secretary. The emails displayed two accounts: hdr22@clintonemail.com and hrod17@clintonemail.com...
... (Hillary) Clinton did not use the government email system while secretary of state. Instead, she used a private server and email account...
(Hillary) Clinton’s claim that she created hrod17@clintonemail.com after she left office.
_______________________
Classified Data Found in Personal Email of Colin Powell and Aides to Condoleezza Rice
By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARK MAZZETTI FEB. 4, 2016 The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin L. Powell and close aides ofCondoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state for President George W. Bush.
Two emails were sent to Mr. Powell’s personal account, and 10 to personal accounts of Ms. Rice’s senior aides...
Ms. Rice ... her chief of staff, Georgia D. Godfrey, said that she did not use email or have a personal email account while secretary.
Mrs. Clinton, nine days later, forwarded it to an aide from her email address —hrod17@clintonemail.com — with a brief note, “Pls print.”
______________________
Print? Who prints email messages this millennium? And Hillary's IDs were hdr22 and hrod17? How juvenile.
The problem is not necessarily two IDs. The problem is Hillary using a private and likely much less secure email server instead of that of the State Department. Why do that? It's not because she was already familiar with it because its creation coincides with her becoming Secretary of State.
This is a further indication of just how technically oblivious Hillary is. If she insisted on using personal email as Secretary of State, that shows incompetence. Her many thousands of unsecure messages dwarf the dozen of Powell and Rice. But there's another disturbing dynamic.
Hillary's aids either were too afraid to inform her this was not wise or to insist she not do this. Or she ignored good advice. None of this is positive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#Domain_names
Until 2013, Justin Cooper, a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, managed the system. Cooper had no security clearance or expertise in computer security.[11]
The email server was stored in the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York until 2013...
The Clintons paid Bryan Pagliano, the former IT director for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, to maintain their private email server while Clinton was Secretary of State... Security experts such as Chris Soghoian believe that emails could be at risk of hacking and foreign surveillance... Clinton's server was configured to allow users to connect openly from the Internet and control it remotely using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services...These records showed that, using a computer in Serbia, the hacker had scanned Clinton's Chappaqua server at least twice, in August and in December 2012. It was unclear from the reports whether the hacker knew the server belonged to Clinton, although it did identify itself as providing email services for clintonemail.com... Marc Maiffret, a cybersecurity expert, said that the server had "amateur hour" vulnerabilities.[21]
___________________
I searched the article for router and then for wireless. Neither were found. Was the server accessible to anyone nearby through a router, which included wireless connectivity?
And Bernie Sanders should give a damn. If he doesn't, he's oblivious, too. Both are too old to serve and they show damn poor judgement.
There's no home page but it is registered:
https://who.is/whois/clintonemail.com
Important Dates
Expires On
January 13, 2017
Registered On
January 13, 2009
Updated On
March 04, 2015
Barack Obama was sworn in to his first term as president on January 20, 2009, seven days after clintonemail.com was registered. For whom was it registered?
Bill Clinton had left office January 20, 2001, succeeded by George Bush the younger. Presumably Hillary Clinton had already accepted Obama's offer for her to be nominated as his Secretary of State by inauguration day 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation
Clinton Foundation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clinton Foundation Founded 1997
Founder Bill Clinton
Purpose Humanitarian
Location New York City
Area served Worldwide
The Clinton Foundation ... originally founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Foundation
_______________________
While there's a bit of confusion about when it was founded, it's clear that it's Bill's foundation. It has this website:
clintonfoundation.org
http://www.whois.com/whois/clintonfoundation.org
Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2013-04-08T17:12:26Z
Creation Date: 1999-09-30T20:53:06Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2016-09-30T20:53:06Z
Sponsoring Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC...
Registrant Name: Clinton Foundation
Registrant Organization: Clinton Foundation,,,
Admin Email:
@clintonfoundation.org____________________
So if Hillary was supposedly using the email service of the foundation why is the domain she used clintonemail.com, which was set up at least eight years after the foundation?
Clinton’s ‘Secret’ Email Accounts By Eugene Kiely Posted on May 22, 2015
the New York Times published copies of emails that (Hillary) Clinton had sent and received when she was secretary. The emails displayed two accounts: hdr22@clintonemail.com and hrod17@clintonemail.com...
... (Hillary) Clinton did not use the government email system while secretary of state. Instead, she used a private server and email account...
(Hillary) Clinton’s claim that she created hrod17@clintonemail.com after she left office.
_______________________
Classified Data Found in Personal Email of Colin Powell and Aides to Condoleezza Rice
By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARK MAZZETTI FEB. 4, 2016 The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin L. Powell and close aides ofCondoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state for President George W. Bush.
Two emails were sent to Mr. Powell’s personal account, and 10 to personal accounts of Ms. Rice’s senior aides...
Ms. Rice ... her chief of staff, Georgia D. Godfrey, said that she did not use email or have a personal email account while secretary.
Mrs. Clinton, nine days later, forwarded it to an aide from her email address —hrod17@clintonemail.com — with a brief note, “Pls print.”
______________________
Print? Who prints email messages this millennium? And Hillary's IDs were hdr22 and hrod17? How juvenile.
The problem is not necessarily two IDs. The problem is Hillary using a private and likely much less secure email server instead of that of the State Department. Why do that? It's not because she was already familiar with it because its creation coincides with her becoming Secretary of State.
This is a further indication of just how technically oblivious Hillary is. If she insisted on using personal email as Secretary of State, that shows incompetence. Her many thousands of unsecure messages dwarf the dozen of Powell and Rice. But there's another disturbing dynamic.
Hillary's aids either were too afraid to inform her this was not wise or to insist she not do this. Or she ignored good advice. None of this is positive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#Domain_names
Until 2013, Justin Cooper, a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, managed the system. Cooper had no security clearance or expertise in computer security.[11]
The email server was stored in the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York until 2013...
The Clintons paid Bryan Pagliano, the former IT director for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, to maintain their private email server while Clinton was Secretary of State... Security experts such as Chris Soghoian believe that emails could be at risk of hacking and foreign surveillance... Clinton's server was configured to allow users to connect openly from the Internet and control it remotely using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services...These records showed that, using a computer in Serbia, the hacker had scanned Clinton's Chappaqua server at least twice, in August and in December 2012. It was unclear from the reports whether the hacker knew the server belonged to Clinton, although it did identify itself as providing email services for clintonemail.com... Marc Maiffret, a cybersecurity expert, said that the server had "amateur hour" vulnerabilities.[21]
___________________
I searched the article for router and then for wireless. Neither were found. Was the server accessible to anyone nearby through a router, which included wireless connectivity?
And Bernie Sanders should give a damn. If he doesn't, he's oblivious, too. Both are too old to serve and they show damn poor judgement.
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