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Incompetent Programing at Apple Delays Some of the Backdoors in iOS15 but not Others, Complete Security Compromise not Available for Several Weeks

The proliferation of end to end encryption in the civilian sector is something that causes the secret police of the world deep frustration. The desire to at least possess the ability to read the contents of every email has been the stated policy of the American State since the Clinton Administration. The inability of the FBI to crack into the contents of a dead person's iPhone was put on display by former FBI director James Comey in 2016.

 

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FBI Cybersecurity Chief Amy Hess Found the First Problem She Could not Solve and Ran to Apple who Promptly Knuckled Under

Amy Hess is a very good strategic thinker in terms of both doing her job and building a private empire within the Godzilla sized bureaucracy that is the national security state. When she asks Apple for help with an IPhone problem, that makes it a problem worth noting. The fact that this problem was similar to a problem that confounded her old boss, now former FBI Director James Comey, is telling. The fact that the two were at loggerheads over the issue is also telling.

 

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Police Brutality will soon become a state secret

Rodney King was the first break in the dam. The beating that sparked the rebellion in 1992 was not new. What was new was video cameras. Now everybody could see the unrestrained violence against the defenseless that America calls “law enforcement.” Consumer electronics have advanced. There are cameras in every phone. Video has now recorded the recent deaths Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. It did not record the less nationally known case of Henry Green V here in Columbus.

 

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