Apple is fighting the FBI
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@Minion-Queen said:
Best of intentions and all that
I don't think that the intentions are good. It's a power grab, they are trying to take advantage of an unfortunate incident for their own purposes, it's shameful and disrespectful. If they had good intentions they would have, at the very least, attempted this in a public, legal way.
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@art_of_shred said:
@Minion-Queen said:
I would agree with Scott on this one. They are worried about the here and now. Not the consequences that will happen because they forced things to be available now for the one thing they need. Best of intentions and all that
AKA: American foreign policy in the 20th century...
The legacy of Roosevelt.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Best of intentions and all that
I don't think that the intentions are good. It's a power grab, they are trying to take advantage of an unfortunate incident for their own purposes, it's shameful and disrespectful. If they had good intentions they would have, at the very least, attempted this in a public, legal way.
good point
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@scottalanmiller said:
I should point out that I don't feel that the FBI is in any way involved in a conspiracy, only that they are generally non-ethical, not law abiding and have no interest in protecting Americans and the results are generally poor because of it. There isn't any organized effort to do something big and awful, just lots of people looking to gain power and don't care why they hurt or put at risk to do so. Nothing like a conspiracy. Not like they are aiding a foreign power intentionally, they just don't care if bad people take advantage of the things that they do.
I have a hard time putting the FBI into that category. Now the NSA - that's a whole other story. I say the NSA is doing exactly what you've proposed above.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I should point out that I don't feel that the FBI is in any way involved in a conspiracy, only that they are generally non-ethical, not law abiding and have no interest in protecting Americans and the results are generally poor because of it. There isn't any organized effort to do something big and awful, just lots of people looking to gain power and don't care why they hurt or put at risk to do so. Nothing like a conspiracy. Not like they are aiding a foreign power intentionally, they just don't care if bad people take advantage of the things that they do.
I have a hard time putting the FBI into that category. Now the NSA - that's a whole other story. I say the NSA is doing exactly what you've proposed above.
The difference would be, I think, that the FBI does good things, too. The NSA, does none. The FBI is a good idea gone bad. The NSA is an openly bad idea from the onset.
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I wonder what the ratio is for crimes solved to crimes perpetrated by the FBI.
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@art_of_shred said:
I wonder what the ratio is for crimes solved to crimes perpetrated by the FBI.
Oh man - that would be an awesome stat!
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Except it would likely be the FBI allowed to produce the stat
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@Dashrender Or a scary one...
I also wonder if the NSA shares info with the FBI, and if I will be getting a knock at my door in the next 30 minutes.
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@art_of_shred Well I imagine they've solved more, but a better question is prevented vs solved after the fact. I'm betting prevented is very low. I have all of the episodes of the show FBI Files and can only think of two which involved preventing a crime, keep in mind both were by domestic terrorists or by criminal groups which had already committed many crimes.
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*hears knocking at @art_of_shred 's door.
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@dafyre are you with the FBI?
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@tonyshowoff said:
@art_of_shred Well I imagine they've solved more, but a better question is prevented vs solved after the fact. I'm betting prevented is very low. I have all of the episodes of the show FBI Files and can only think of two which involved preventing a crime, keep in mind both were by domestic terrorists or by criminal groups which had already committed many crimes.
Which would have been stopped simply by having solved the original crimes!
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@art_of_shred said:
@Dashrender Or a scary one...
I also wonder if the NSA shares info with the FBI, and if I will be getting a knock at my door in the next 30 minutes.
The flow goes like this...
NSA shared to the FBI shares to Chinese hackers
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@tonyshowoff said:
@art_of_shred Well I imagine they've solved more, but a better question is prevented vs solved after the fact. I'm betting prevented is very low. I have all of the episodes of the show FBI Files and can only think of two which involved preventing a crime, keep in mind both were by domestic terrorists or by criminal groups which had already committed many crimes.
No one (except citizens) wins by crime prevention. It is the same philosophy as to why we don't invest in maintaining infrastructure. You make more money by solving crime then stopping it before it happens.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
@Dashrender Or a scary one...
I also wonder if the NSA shares info with the FBI, and if I will be getting a knock at my door in the next 30 minutes.
The flow goes like this...
NSA shared to the FBI shares to Chinese hackers
smh
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@tonyshowoff Exactly !
The NSA was asked to provide numbers on the number of attacks/issues/ whatever you want to call them than they have thwarted, and they couldn't even come up with a lie of a number - instead they simply said - that's national security information and we can't tell you.
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@scottalanmiller Your edit prevented me making a joke about NASA
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@Dashrender said:
@tonyshowoff Exactly !
The NSA was asked to provide numbers on the number of attacks/issues/ whatever you want to call them than they have thwarted, and they couldn't even come up with a lie of a number - instead they simply said - that's national security information and we can't tell you.
