The real issue is how did the FBI lose their ability to carry out vital national security directives?
The conflict with Apple, a Wall Street company, was about anarchy. Since when? And how much of the American reality is ruled by circumstance and not the law? There is much to be learned about a cyber society. That is the dynamic playing out in the middle east. The Arab Spring. It is anarchy. Cyber is at the center of it. Certainly, everyone knows that.
The Arab Spring is a convenient tomato to through at President Obama, but, it is not about USA killing and war machines so much as the ability of one person to establish a movement via cyber communication. That was viewed in Yemen. All those people did not receive directives from one Imam. No one asked how the people organized in an orderly manner such a civil movement in the same place at the same time? Why?
The method of organization was not important because it might expose the truth and remove the lies of the Republicans ranting about war? Seriously. The fear mongering of the Republicans to their electorate would be completely destroyed if the truth was known. The cyber influence is responsible for the Arab Spring, not anything the USA could do to oppress it.
Think about that. The USA should send war machines and soldiers to oppress any disorderly conduct in the middle east? Really?
The United Nations has a Small Arms Convention. Really they do.
March 29, 2016
By Phillip Elmer-DeWitt
We waded through the flood of commentary so you don’t have to. (click here)
Here’s how fast big news gets commoditized.
I learned at dinner Monday from my Apple Watch that the FBI had broken into the iPhone of San Bernardino, Calif., shooting suspect Syed Rizwan Farook without Apple’s help. By Tuesday morning, Techmeme had gathered 66 headlines and 20 choice Tweets about the development. A Google search for “FBI cracks iPhone,” meanwhile, returned nearly 3 million hits....
The conflict with Apple, a Wall Street company, was about anarchy. Since when? And how much of the American reality is ruled by circumstance and not the law? There is much to be learned about a cyber society. That is the dynamic playing out in the middle east. The Arab Spring. It is anarchy. Cyber is at the center of it. Certainly, everyone knows that.
The Arab Spring is a convenient tomato to through at President Obama, but, it is not about USA killing and war machines so much as the ability of one person to establish a movement via cyber communication. That was viewed in Yemen. All those people did not receive directives from one Imam. No one asked how the people organized in an orderly manner such a civil movement in the same place at the same time? Why?
The method of organization was not important because it might expose the truth and remove the lies of the Republicans ranting about war? Seriously. The fear mongering of the Republicans to their electorate would be completely destroyed if the truth was known. The cyber influence is responsible for the Arab Spring, not anything the USA could do to oppress it.
Think about that. The USA should send war machines and soldiers to oppress any disorderly conduct in the middle east? Really?
The United Nations has a Small Arms Convention. Really they do.
March 29, 2016
By Phillip Elmer-DeWitt
We waded through the flood of commentary so you don’t have to. (click here)
Here’s how fast big news gets commoditized.
I learned at dinner Monday from my Apple Watch that the FBI had broken into the iPhone of San Bernardino, Calif., shooting suspect Syed Rizwan Farook without Apple’s help. By Tuesday morning, Techmeme had gathered 66 headlines and 20 choice Tweets about the development. A Google search for “FBI cracks iPhone,” meanwhile, returned nearly 3 million hits....
