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DamianTV
03-17-2016, 05:06 PM
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/03/17/138224/the-law-is-clear-the-fbi-cannot-make-apple-rewrite-its-os


An anonymous reader cites a post by Susan Crawford, Harvard Law Professor and former Obama Special Assistant:

From her column at Backchannel, "Barack Obama has a fine legal mind. But he may not have been using it when he talked about encryption last week. [...] The problem for the president is that when it comes to the specific battle going on right now between Apple and the FBI, the law is clear: twenty years ago, Congress passed a statute, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) that does not allow the government to tell manufacturers how to design or configure a phone or software used by that phone -- including security software used by that phone.

NOTE: I didnt copy over the source links from the slashdot article.

Ronin Truth
03-18-2016, 09:51 AM
Can the FBI make Apple wish that it had?

asurfaholic
03-18-2016, 10:09 AM
Wanna bet?

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