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Catch 22 National Security
The Obama administration has made an interesting argument in
its attempt to force Apple to create a permanent “back door” access to the last
vestige of our constitutional rights of privacy which are protected by current encryption
code technology. The FBI wants Apple to write a “workaround” to the existing
code that would give them extended authority to circumvent all the known
security features of today.
The government assures us that it would only use the
backdoor on this particular I-phone belonging to the two San Bernardino
terrorists killed in that shootout. It
is a caveat that becomes laughable when laid alongside the government’s 40 year record of abuse and illegality in
exercising such authority. The reality
is that once the “workaround” is out there it would work on any phone and the
cliché of “no putting the genie back in the bottle”, would haunt us!
Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress,
the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to
justify an expansion of its authority. The FBI logic is that even though the “1789”authors
could not have imagined I-phones or encryption (any more than the 2nd Amendment
forefathers could have foreseen the automatic fire arms of today) --- the “All
Writs Law” reaches out to the future and compels Apple to force open the door.
Therefore, Apple must create a program so the government can
breach our national security program in order to protect our national security
program.
Ah, the almost perfect Catch 22. Thank you, Joseph Heller
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