{"id":227937,"date":"2016-02-29T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=227937"},"modified":"2016-02-29T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:55:55","slug":"first-came-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/first-came-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"First They Came for the iPhones\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The FBI tells us that its demand for a back door into the iPhone is all about<br \/>\nfighting terrorism, and that it is essential to break in just this one time<br \/>\nto find out more about the San Bernardino attack last December. But the truth<br \/>\nis they had long sought a way to break Apple\u2019s iPhone encryption and, like<br \/>\n9\/11 and the PATRIOT Act, a mass murder provided just the pretext needed. After<br \/>\nall, they say, if we are going to be protected from terrorism we have to give<br \/>\nup a little of our privacy and liberty. Never mind that government spying on<br \/>\nus has not prevented one terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has so far stood up to a federal government\u2019s demand that it force its<br \/>\nemployees to write a computer program to break into its own product. No doubt<br \/>\nApple CEO Tim Cook understands the damage it would do to his company for the<br \/>\nworld to know that the US government has a key to supposedly secure iPhones.<br \/>\nBut the principles at stake are even higher. We have a fundamental right to<br \/>\nprivacy. We have a fundamental right to go about our daily life without the<br \/>\nthreat of government surveillance of our activities. We are not East Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget that this new, more secure iPhone was developed partly<br \/>\nin response to Ed Snowden\u2019s revelations that the federal government was<br \/>\nillegally spying on us. The federal government was caught breaking the law but<br \/>\ninstead of ending its illegal spying is demanding that private companies make<br \/>\nit easier for it to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we also learned that Congress is planning to join the fight against<br \/>\nApple \u2013 and us. Members are rushing to set up yet another governmental commission<br \/>\nto study how our privacy can be violated for false promises of security. Of<br \/>\ncourse they won\u2019t put it that way, but we can be sure that will be the<br \/>\nresult. Some in Congress are seeking to pass legislation regulating how companies<br \/>\ncan or cannot encrypt their products. This will suppress the development of<br \/>\nnew technology and will have a chilling effect on our right to be protected<br \/>\nfrom an intrusive government. Any legislation Congress writes limiting encryption<br \/>\nwill likely be unconstitutional, but unfortunately Congress seldom heeds the<br \/>\nConstitution anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/paul\/2016\/02\/28\/first-they-came-for-the-iphones\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI tells us that its demand for a back door into the iPhone is all about fighting terrorism, and that it is essential to break in just this one time to find out more about the San Bernardino attack last December. But the truth is they had long sought a way to break Apple\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}