Court Rules Police Can Force Users to Unlock iPhones With Fingerprints, But Not Passc

[racrguy]

Yes. You would be very surprised at the incriminating evidence on people's phones. It's ridiculous.

I am against legislating common sense, and bitching about privacy while living every waking second on social media is ironic and idiotic.

You want your privacy? Don't fucking document your criminal activity and post it on the web, or carry it around with you. We don't need more laws to protect the dumbshits, we need more ways to rid the gene pool of them.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. One wouldn't need access to a phone to pull data off of FB, so your entire premise is pretty well shot to shit.

I agree that one shouldn't document their criminal activities, but to make the whole issues as simple as weeding out the dumb dumbs is moronic, IMO. This isn't about people documenting their crimes, this is about the government forcing you to incriminate yourself by providing them with information that can be used against you. It's not your, or my job to do their jobs for them. If they want to charge people with crimes, they need to find the evidence, not try to force me to give it to them.

My phone has never come under police custody either, but if it ever did, and they want me to unlock it, passcode or not, they can get fucked.

[racrguy]

I'm all for way more executions

Can we start with you, Justin?

[Baba Ganoush]

I kinda ran off on a tangent with the social media, so let me re-integrate my initial point:

Passcode or not, they will, and do access it in seconds.

This will be an ongoing debate, but my advise to you now is to not carry incriminating shit in your phone. If you've been arrested in a decent size municipality in the last five years and your phone went to property, there's an 80 percent chance it was searched. Welcome to the police state.

[racrguy]

I kinda ran off on a tangent with the social media, so let me re-integrate my initial point:

Passcode or not, they will, and do access it in seconds.

This will be an ongoing debate, but my advise to you now is to not carry incriminating shit in your phone. If you've been arrested in a decent size municipality in the last five years and your phone went to property, there's an 80 percent chance it was searched. Welcome to the police state.

Don't you mean reiterate? Where's the data to back up your 80% theory? The FBI is bitching about encryption they can't break (yet) on phones.

[Z06killinsbf]

This makes an interesting point that my work requires us to turn off finger print (I think it's actually disabled) and uses a special 8 digit passcode for the iPhones.... My shit is safe!!

[ceyko]

Oh yeah, even if they had a warrant I would still make it as difficult and as time consuming as possible for them.

Just be cooperative, it'll make things easier on everyone.

Says every cop on TV and drags some dude off for (usually) minor misbehavior.