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• Feb 19, 2016 @ 06:00pm

  Re: Re:

  on No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor

  Software is speech. Making Apple write software is government compelled speech. So, taking a guess here, 1st amendment?

• Feb 19, 2016 @ 08:27pm

  Forced Speech by Apple

  on Basically Every Single Presidential Candidate Is Totally Clueless As To What's At Stake In The Apple / FBI Fight

  If you look at this from Apple's viewpoint, this is really about forced speech by the government. Code is speech. This code to break into the phone is compelled speech, a 1st amendment violation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_Education_v._Barnette

• Feb 19, 2016 @ 05:47pm

  Compelled Commercial Speech

  on Dissecting And Dismantling The Myths Of The DOJ's Motion To Compel Apple To Build A Backdoor

  Software is speech. There are plenty of rulings that say so.
  
  This is the FBI compelling Apple to write software that does what they want. This is nothing more that Government mandated compelled speech.
  
  Why isn't this being framed as a 1st amendment violation, forcing Apple to adopt the FBI's utterances?

• Jan 06, 2016 @ 02:58pm

  Old bad idea.

  on Pioneer In Internet Anonymity Hands FBI A Huge Gift In Building Dangerous Backdoored Encryption System

  Sounds like a rehash of key escrow. These are not the droids you're looking for.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_escrow

• Nov 04, 2014 @ 04:41pm

  Hampton police responds..... video

  on Virginia Police Departments Have Been Collaborating On An Ad Hoc, Secret Phone Record Database

  Video response by the police department.
  
  http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-nws-police-phone-program-legalities-20141025-story.html#page=1