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Related: About this forumTYT: NSA Wants In Your iPhone's Backdoor
Last week there was a series of terrorist attacks. The government is springing into action to curtail your privacy rights. They want tech companies to create backdoors in devices for them to exploit in order to combat terrorist plots. John Iadarola, host of Think Tank, discusses why we need to protect our privacy.
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TYT: NSA Wants In Your iPhone's Backdoor (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Nov 2015
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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)1. NSA should be watching their frontdoor
rather than worrying about my backdoor.
Cayenne
(480 posts)2. A backdoor would destroy our tech exports
Not like we have a lot of exports left anymore.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)3. K&R. The power to see your private phone and e-mail information will inevitably be misused for
political purposes or worse. It's just human nature.
No to backdoors on cell phones. It's simply wrong.
Ask the East Germans about it.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)4. Even after Apple told them
That they cannot get in. NOBODY can get in!