Wired:
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT filed a motion this morning asking a federal court to compel Apple to comply with a magistrate’s order that it help the FBI hack into an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects.
A federal magistrate initially gave Apple five business days to respond to her order, released on Tuesday, but the Justice Department decided not to wait for Apple’s response, noting in its motion today that Apple CEO Tim Cook had already indicated in a public statement posted to Apple’s web site Tuesday that his company would not comply.
“The government does not seek to deny Apple its right to be heard, and expects these issues to be fully briefed before the Court; however, the urgency of this investigation requires this motion now that Apple has made its intention not to comply patently clear,” the Justice Department wrote in its 35-page motion.
And:
Shortly after news of the new motion broke, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump reportedly called on the public to boycott Apple until it gives in to the government’s request.
Here’s Trump’s tweet:
Boycott all Apple products until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal
The pressure is ratcheting up on both sides.
I’ll be the snob and question how many of Trump’s supporters are likely to be Apple customers. I suspect Apple will survive the boycott pretty easily.
So hilarious that Gruber has to mention how scary it is the “Republican” candidate Trump is calling for a boycott, while “Democrat” Obama’s administration is actually strong-arming Apple. Somehow Gruber’s criticism of the administration forgets to mention the “D” word. As Jonah Goldberg long ago noted, failure by Democrats belongs to America, failure by Republicans belongs to Republicans
There seems to be a lot of failure to go around.
Tweeted from an iPhone, right?
Trump is a fucking gas bag and is not the issue here, nor is any party for that matter. What is, is the protection of privacy and all the implications that go along with it, I don’t care who’s trying to supersede it. All of us, no matter what party affiliation one has or even what country we might be from should stand with Apple on this issue!
Yes, it’s only my opinion & my one voice, but it counts for something, doesn’t it?
And if he just made anything that people wanted we could all boycott him back in return. Hard to boycott your landlord and move out though! Still the main reason so many media people have kid gloves when they interview him >:[
Err, this issue seems to be pretty bipartisan to me. Democrats and Republicans alike are calling for Apple and other phone manufacturers to enable back doors. Isn’t it a Republican that’s planning a bill to penalize companies that refuse to unlock encrypted devices?
Don’t be such an extremist and bring party nonsense into the discussion. This frothing at the mouth for encrypted smartphone access is coming from ALL sides, all govts across the world. This case will have FAR reaching implications across the globe. The whole world is watching this play out, I can promise you that. Especially countries like China. Very scary.
Ironically he tweets from HIS iPhone…
Agree with you completely. But Gruber can’t help pointing that Trump is a “Republican” while never mentioning that the people making the actual threats are Democrats. As to the Republican planning a bill, I think that’s true and terrible, but who would have to sign it into law? As of today, a Democrat. This will be seen as a failure of America, not Democrats by Grubes.
You know that this isn’t Daringfireball, right?
Is that you Grubes?
Trump is no dummy, half the time…
Well sometimes that gasbag is right … though in this case he is dead wrong.
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