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A quick look through the many replies below seems to indicate most people have an immediate feeling that we want to be protected from terrorists so it is petty of Apple to "refuse to unlock this one phone" simply because they believe in privacy rights. I would suggest you know what is actually being required of Apple:
The government has invoked a centuries old writ requiring the general cooperation of third parties in excecuting writs or orders of the court/government. It has invoked that general writ in this case to insist that Apple engineers write a new operating system for the iPhone that will remove the multiple password submit protection (i.e., remove the increasing delay of response and ultimate locking of the device on repeated password errors) so the government can try brute force cracking the password for the terrorist's phone (by running millions of attempts at the password in automatically until one works).
To paraphrase a federal judge who refused to allow the use of th All Writs Act in that way in 2005, the government need only run this Hail Mary play if its arguments under the relevant laws fail to allow it to do what it wants to do (US Magistrate Judge Orenstein).
This controversy will surely take years to resolve, since it will likely proceed to the US Supreme Court (which may not be fully staffed since the Congress apparently views the President's power to appoint justices as optional and politically inconvenient).
Aside from the implications of demanding a business abandon a marketing feature or do slave labor for the government (and these do involve constitutional questions re 2nd and 5th amendments among other issues), you really need to slow down on this reaction that we want to be protected and what does it matter if the government can look at any and all of my communications (which they do anyway for the most part). There is a difference from being protected by law and being protected by the good will of a particular official of the government.
We've come a long way from Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death," the attitude of those who risked their lives that we might have a country like America. Now it seems to be, "to hell with liberty---I want to live at any cost." If you look at history you will see populations that made that decision always suffered severe consequences.
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Excellent commentary. Well written.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I'm not a hardware expert by any means but here's something I've been thinking of and wondering if this could be done:
1) dismantle the phone and connect the iPhone's storage chip(s) to an interface that can read the raw data of the chip(s) but would not be able to decrypt the data.
2) copy the encrypted contents of the iPhone's storage to another system and back it up as well.
3) hook up an iPhone emulator to the first backup and try entering unlock codes sequentially until the right code is hit.
4) if the emulator zaps the data then just restore from the backup and keep trying until the unlock code is found, then proceed to read the data.
I'm sure there has to be a reason why no one else has suggested doing this before like you can't dismantle the iPhone without zapping everything in the phone.
What do you all think?
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Would it change your mind if they had the password from the backups of the device, but someone muffed it up and changed the password in the cloud?
The reason why they don't have data on this phone - is that they didn't follow their own process.
My understanding is that there is more to this than just Apple being difficult.
Personally, I'm glad Apple has taken the stance they have. Remember Blackberry, around about the time they gave into Pakistan about data interception, their customers began to leave them in droves. Co-incidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
Many government departments rely on the iphone security. How many would remain customers if it wasn't there.
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Stop Jupiter[^]
Why bring this to your attention? Because one of the footnotes is a lovely bit of English: "Earth weighs almost exactly pi milliJupiters."
Now, aren't you glad you know that? 
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Five billion years from now, we're expected to be approaching final IPv4 address exhaustion. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: Earth weighs almost exactly pi milliJupiters
There's gotta be a scheme to this! 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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"by the time the Sun goes supernova, Jupiter's calendar will be several dozen nanoseconds out of sync from where it would be otherwise!"
Now I won't be able to sleep tonight
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Also, the year has roughly pi ˙ 107 seconds.
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I must not be fluent enough in English to "get it".
I'd rather be phishing!
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Mass of Earth ~ Mass of Jupiter * pi / 1000 = pi Millijupiters.
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The media often compare sizes and weights to things people are already familiar with: "an area of four football fields", "as high as four elephants", "the size of Wales", "the weight of four bags of sugar".
This is comparing the weight of the whole planet Earth to pi times a thousandth of the weight of Jupiter.
It's probably accurate (Randall normally checks his facts very carefully) but it's as useless in practice as "add a millionth the weight of a sperm whale of saffron" would be in a recipe!
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's probably accurate
Close enough for government work - Earth mass / Jupiter mass[^] ≈ 0.00314636, which is reasonably close to π / 1000. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: "the size of Wales"
You forgot your 'h' in Whales.
I'm the helpful spelling American and I'm just helping out.
You should really probably indicate which type of Whale too since there are large size differences in whales like Orca and Blue.
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raddevus wrote:
I'm the helpful spelling American and I'm just helping out.
Maybe not so much. Consider the difference between Wales and whales. Hint: one is a plural, the other isn't.
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I'm guessing the joke "How do you get two whales in a car? Over the Severn Bridge!" is a bit of a woosh then?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Now, how does that joke go? Something like
This American guy returns from a round trip of Great Britain with a badly bruised eye, and tries to explain it to his buddies:
I went to this pub, and tried to approach a couple girls
- Hi! Are you chicks from this part of England?
They snared back at me:
- That'll be Wales, you silly fool!
So I tried again:
- OK, I'm sorry about that. So, are you whales from this part of England?
The next thing I remember is waking up at the local hospital.
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I really love comparisons such as "as heavy as a fifty pound sack of potatoes" or "as long as a ten foot pole".
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As clueless as a first post in QA.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That reminds me on the stupid look on someone's face when I said "kiloEuro".
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Kiriander wrote: That reminds me on the stupid look on someone's face when I said "kiloEuro".
Really? You get a stupid look?
I am so accustomed to reading about kilodollars (K$), megadollars (M$), kilokroner (KNOK) and megakroner (MNOK - that is for NOrwegian Kroner) that kiloEuro and megaEuro sounds perfectly natural to me.
If you start taking about dekadollars or hektokroner, you might confuse me for a few seconds, though. I know of no application are were the deka- prefix is used regularly. Hekto- has survived in a few professions, e.g. fishermen may talk about hectoliters of fish. In farming and surveying there is a unit of area, 10 by 10 meters, called an are. So ten ares are a deca-are and 100 ares are a hecto-are - but those are contracted to decare and hectare.
On the other side of 1: If you want to confuse a stereo freak or signal processing man, you should consistently use Bel as a unit. A S/N of six Bel is quite reasonable for everyday use, even though modern sound technology can easily provide eight to ten Bel. Lots of engineers may know, at an "intellectual" level, that a dB is a tenth of a Bel, but in everyday work they never think of it; dB is the basic unit.
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Impressive and quite interesting!
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Very cool. 
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It will be very interesting to learn more about the architecture here at Code Project. What say you, Chris?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I did not read the SO article word by word, I quickly scanned through it. But it seems they are using VMs for everything, with very powerful dual Xeons (10-core) as the Hyper-V host machines. And I would assume that the redis VMs are all high-RAM spec'd
[edit] - I may be wrong. Seems they use physical servers. Now, that makes sense!
modified 17-Feb-16 12:34pm.
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