{"id":4145,"date":"2016-02-19T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-19T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:37:04","slug":"how_to_figure_out_what_side_you_re_on_in_the_fbi_vs_apple_controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/19\/how_to_figure_out_what_side_you_re_on_in_the_fbi_vs_apple_controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Figure Out What Side You\u2019re On in the FBI vs. Apple Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: In the e-mail, “Rush, I\u2019m already getting confused. Despite how much time you have spent and how clearly you\u2019ve explained this Apple mess, could you make it even simpler for me to understand?” Sure. Here is the simplest way to understand this controversy with Apple, and the iPhone 5c that was possessed by the terrorist. Do you like the fact — now that you\u2019ve learned it — that the government cannot crack your phone? Do you like that? How many of you up until now think that the government could have gotten into your phone, followed you around, GPS, read your mails, ready your e-mails, your text messages?<\/p>\n

How many of you thought that was going on that the NSA was tracking you because they care so much? Have you figured out what the real takeaway from this is? The government can\u2019t crack your iPhone! And the government wants to be able to crack your iPhone. So the real question is: “Do you like the fact that the government can\u2019t read your e-mails?” (sigh) Well, if you have a phone later than the 5c, and if you\u2019re running iOS 8 or 9 (if you\u2019re running 7, it\u2019s a little different), with Apple\u2019s help, they can.<\/line><\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re modernized, do you like the fact that the government can\u2019t crack your phone? Do you want the government to be able to crack your phone? If you do, then hate Apple for what they\u2019re doing here. If you like the fact that the government can\u2019t crack your phone, which they\u2019re tantamount admitting here, then you need to support Apple. They\u2019re the ones trying to keep people out of your phone. It\u2019s no more complicated than that, folks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, look, the Apple circumstance is, obviously, a little bit more complicated than I stated it. But in terms of really getting to the nitty-gritty about what it\u2019s about, I did give you the boundaries. This could be solved very simply if the FBI wants what\u2019s on the terrorist\u2019s phone. If they would agree to take the phone to Apple let Apple find out what\u2019s on the phone and report back to the FBI, you\u2019d have this done this afternoon. That\u2019s not what the FBI wants. See, that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n

The FBI wants to be able to get into that phone itself after Apple weakens its own security systems in the software. And then after that, the FBI and the government and other law enforcement want to be able to get into any other phone, ostensibly in the hands of criminals, without having to go to Apple to do it. There\u2019s a story out there that Apple has helped the FBI in 70 separate instances. Maybe so. But there\u2019s a key fact that\u2019s being left out of the reporting on that. The key is: Can you get that data with the phone locked or unlocked?<\/p>\n

“Locked” means you need to enter your passcode to unlock it and be able to use it.<\/p>\n

The only time Apple has been able to get data off of a phone for the FBI is when it was locked. Apple has never unlocked a customer\u2019s phone to get data. If they\u2019re running an iPhone 4 or an iPhone 5 or a 5c (and running iOS 7 or older), then Apple can go in and get certain data even if the phone is locked. But if it\u2019s an iPhone 5S or 6 or 6S running iOS 8 or iOS 9, they can\u2019t. But the point is: How many of you have been believing at this time that…? You\u2019re sending a text. You\u2019ve got a text or an iMessage thread going with somebody.<\/p>\n

And you think, “Gosh, I\u2019ve got to be careful what I say here because somebody could be reading this.” You just learned now that they can\u2019t. You\u2019ve learned that that\u2019s encrypted front to back, and the only person that can read what you\u2019re typing is the person you\u2019re sending it to. And vice versa: You\u2019re the only one that can read what they\u2019re typing (other than they, of course), because it\u2019s encrypted on both ends. And the key (in other words, the key to unlock the encryption) is on the phone; it\u2019s not at Apple headquarters.<\/line><\/p>\n

The FBI wants to be able to read your e-mails, other law enforcement, if you\u2019re a criminal — they want to be able to read your text messages — and they\u2019re asking Apple to give them the permission to unlock your phone or a terrorist\u2019s phone or whatever. No, they\u2019re not asking. They\u2019re going to court demanding, as the federal government, that the courts make Apple make their systems more vulnerable. The point is that I don\u2019t know how many millions of people up until this incident probably believed that, if the government wanted to, they could spy on them.<\/p>\n

Read their e-mails, maybe even follow their FaceTime phone calls or their text messages. And what you\u2019ve learned is nobody can. Your government cannot crack your phone. Surprise, surprise. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a lot of paranoid people actually sad to learn that, because they had bought into this giant conspiracy belief that the NSA is tracking everybody and listening to everything, content. Turns out it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

So if you like that circumstance, if you like the fact that the government can\u2019t crack your phone? That\u2019s the question for you. Because government doesn\u2019t want to just stop at particular phones that may be under suspicion. They want to have the ability to be able to unlock and use any phone whenever it\u2019s under suspicion without having to go to Apple. And to make that possible, they either want Apple to weaken their systems or to give the government the key to unlock. Now, that is a simplification, but it pretty much spells this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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