[ May 3, 2024 ]
Traitors and totalitarians. We know that the social media giants have been at war with those who oppose jihad for quite some time, and are actively committed to banning and blocking counter-jihad accounts and imposing sharia blasphemy restrictions. But this is a step even farther. After stouting defending the privacy rights of the San Bernardino jihad mass murderers, Apple turned on a dime and handed over access to all of Roger Stone’s data. This shows what they think is a worse crime: not jihad mass murder, but dissenting from the left’s agenda and supporting President Trump. Apple is evil.
“Apple Gives Deep State Access To Roger Stone’s iCloud Account, After Refusing To Violate Privacy of San Bernardino Terrorists,” by Jacob Engels, Gateway Pundit, February 6, 2019 (thanks to Todd):
Three years after Apple refused to give the federal government access to the devices used by the San Bernadino terrorists who killed and injured dozens in a mass shooting event, the company has given the office of the Special Counsel complete access to Trump advisor Roger Stone’s iCloud account, reports Apple Insider.
Story continues below advertisementAccording to the Washington Post, Apple objected to giving the federal government backdoor access to the shooters iPhones, claiming it would “set a dangerous precedent.”
“From the beginning, we objected to the FBI’s demand that Apple build a backdoor into the iPhone because we believed it was wrong and would set a dangerous precedent. As a result of the government’s dismissal, neither of these occurred. This case should never have been brought.”
Fast forward to present, and we see that Apple no longer seems to have the same privacy concerns it once did in 2015. Without any fight, they simply turned over Roger Stone’s iCloud passwords and God knows what else, because Orange Man Bad. The fact that Apple views a political persecution less of a hill to die on than protecting the rights of terrorists who killed and maimed dozens of Americans is quite telling.
More from the Washington Post on Apple’s refusal to turn over access to the San Bernandino [sic] shooters devices…
“If allowed to stand, the order in Apple’s case would have forced company engineers to create software to disable a phone security feature so that the FBI could try its hand at unlocking the device by cracking a numeric password. Apple quickly resisted, arguing that forcing it to create such software would violate the company’s constitutional rights and weaken privacy for users around the world.”
Which makes us wonder… what exactly was Apple threatened with by Robert Mueller and the Office of the Special Counsel for them to abandon their firm stance against turning over user data and access to federal investigators? Surely they didn’t reason that two mass shooters were more deserving of their tough stand against government overreach and backdoor programs? There must be some explanation as to how they could give the federal government the power to access our privately held devices and accounts at will right?…
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70 Comments
5 years ago
that’s right, who cares how many people die if it adds to the bottom line…real reason the left does anything
5 years ago
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5 years ago
“There must be some explanation as to how they could give the federal government the power to access our privately held devices and accounts at will right?…” There is. Apple, is just an arm of the deep state. The deep state’s goal, is to weaken and destroy this country from within. So, it makes perfect sense they would try to stop access to the SB shooters, while handing over info from Stone’s phone.
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Wrong! they handed over the same data for San Bernardino they did for Stone, icloud data, they could not give access to physical data without creating a backdoor on the iphones that would make every iphone more susceptible to being hacked.
5 years ago
Seriously, did anyone actually think that something different would occur? It’s Apple, the king of slave Chinese labor …. No rational thinker would have expected otherwise. Apple is a slave using, slave trading, evil entity.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Exactly, Achmed, Apple is all you say and more. Treasonous, slave driving scumbags. I would not buy any Apple products even if I could afford to do so. Then again, Apple’s competitors are no better.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rivia
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5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Apple defended safety and the civil rights of everyone against the fascistic state
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Apple turned over the icloud data, what they wouldn’t and said they can’t do is unlock the phone. This story is simply wrong.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
I see your point cloud data isn’t physically located on an iphone, ipad etc.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
It’s the principal of the thing. The laws and rules governing all Search Warrants clearly states that shotgun search warrants are illegal. The requesting Agency must specify to the judge “exactly” what it is looking for, what it is related to and show proof that it is “needed and relative to” as a direct part of their investigation.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rivia
So if Apple provided the same evidence to both cases, what has Apple done wrong exactly other than stating they use encryption and can not get physical access to a device once its password has been entered to many times and locks the phone requiring a password.
I love Pam and this site, but this story is just false.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
It is irrelevant what they did or did not do for anyone else. What Apple did is still WRONG, 2 wrongs don’t make a right. It had to be a “blanket” Warrant, which it wasn’t. “Blanket Warrants” are not legally permissible. The entire process is biased and duplicitous in the extreme. By the same token; I have researched Mueller very thoroughly. He has had decisions overturned due to obstruction, coercion, lies, deceit, provided false evidence. He facilitated and approved the Uranium deal with Russian on behalf of the Clintons as head of the FBI. He carried the uranium sample to Russia personally. My point being, that Apple, knowing that Mueller should be in jail, failed to apply “Due Diligence” and vett the warrant for “exactly what they were looking for”. Some day, someone will sue Apple and I believe they will win. The biggest point that Pam Geller is trying to make here is the blatant Hypocrisy and blatant Double Standard being applied here.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rivia
Apple does not build backdoors into iPhones, Apple has no way to get the data off a locked phone. This whole story is false and all the comments disparging apple about it are plain ignorance. Google has the same policy with Android since they added data encryption, cry about Google.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Hahahaha….Yes, I agree with you. Google is every bit as evil and corrupt. Their “tracking” software whether one wants it or not, is always working passively, it never shuts down or turns off. So many bad guys are utterly perplexed as to how the cops know exactly when, where and at exactly what time they were pinpointed for offenses. Google nor the cops ever reveal this, because it falls under “illegally obtained evidence”.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Except it never happened. That’s a lie. That’s an attack on Apple for defending FREEDOM against the DEEP STATE. I wonder what game Geller is playing, but it isn’t pro freedom pro safety pro individual right pro free speech, it’s pro FBI. She is apparently a sold out
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
What didn’t happen? Apple did, or did not, open up/release Apple’s icloud data for Stone, or they didn’t. Did they? Or, did they not? IF they did, sounds pretty much like they’re collaborating with the “Deep State”. Unless, of course, it deals with moslem mass murders and mass murderers. Cannot have it both ways. Did they release Stone’s icloud storage?
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
Then, apple FULLY submitted to the “Deep State”. It seems the only time that they don’t … is if it’s to protect moslem mass murderer’s accomplices.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
How do you know? Do you work for Apple … or are you deeply entrenched in “The Deep State”? If neither of those two questions yields a “yes” response, there is no way that you would know that. So, which is it? Highly placed with Apple, the deep state, or both?
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
The FBI found nothing apparently.
Apple did not examine that phone AFAIK
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
Apple refused to give assistance to open it. Apple is in bed with the “Deep State”, unless it deals with moslem mass murderers … THOSE Apple protects.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
Apple was ordered, by “The Deep State”, to turn over their holdings of Stone’s data. They complied. Apple only refuses when it’s dealing with moslem mass murderers. Apple is in league with evil. Apple IS evil.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
Absolutely, apple did. It’s painfully obvious. “The Deep State” is apple’s master, unless they’re violating apple’s higher master … moslem mass murderers.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
Shortly after their High Master (moslem mass murderers) perpetrated their mass murders.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
I made up nothing, little one. You ARE correct, on one thing .. When it came to the moslem mass murderers, that are Apple’s top master, even above their “Deep State” master … Apple refused to do ANYTHING … no way will Apple not to obey it’s moslem mass murderer masters.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Apple rightfully reject a fascistic order that violates free speech rights
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
TOO funny, little one. The ONLY time that Apple rejected ANY order from their master’s “The Deep State”, was when it was orders against Apples higher masters, moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures) mass murderers. More than likely the VAST majority of Apple’s corporate officers are the descendants of the cross-breeding of monkeys with pigs (moslems, the vilest of ALL creatures).
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Nope; the only time is when they were required to work against their own brand and users and when a so called judge waved away their free speech
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
That’s blatantly false. What used to be called a bald faced lie. The only time that apple didn’t bow to their masters, “The Deep State” was when it went against apple’s HIGH master, moslem mass murderers.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
What’s false?
Didn’t Apple try to help the FBI as much as possible?
Didn’t the FBI try to prevent Apple from helping the FBI?
Isn’t the FBI part of the problem?
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
Of course the Fecal Bureau of Islamization is a HUGE part of the problem. They’re ONE of Apple’s master. However, moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures) mass murderers .. something that EVERY moslem WANTS to be … is a FAR higher master, of Apple, than the fbi.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cain Abel
What is false? What isn’t false? In answer to the following three question, in order: No. No. Yes
5 years ago
Apple turned over all the iCloud data that was backed up, what they won’t and say they can’t do is break the encryption to unlock the device.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
So the short of it is the iCloud data is useless with a specific device being unlocked with encryption that is NOT being given out,yes?
Is it possible to access the data with a program created to do such a thing currently out there and known,or is that a down the road deal,maybe,possibly?
5 years ago
Reply to
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
In San Bernardino the terrorist had no data backed up to his icloud account to be recovered, and since the FBI failed to hack the phone causing it to lock requiring password, Apple was unable to force an iCloud backup making all data recovered useless. The FBI are to be blamed in this, not Apple.
FBI also screwed up unlocking the Boston Bombers phones. IOS 12 also broke the programs being used to gain access to iphones.
5 years ago
GD apple and their leadership all to Hell for eternity!
5 years ago
No Apple products for me, I am all Android now anyway. I will close down my iCloud account now.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron Hussey
Uhm…. Google has the same policy as Apple now and claims they can not give physical access due to encryption they are now using to protect ecommerce on the phones. So Google gives cloud data just like Apple gives icloud data.
5 years ago
You are KIDDING ME???
Why these cfkuing LIARS! Apple led by another sodomite and one of it’s biggest shareholders agrees in higher taxes but hardly pays any in his profits.
WTF Warren??? Why are almost all billionaires self-proclaimed Demoncraps???
It was just announced Netflix paid NO taxes despite making over $800 million in profit. And they even said they got a $22 million rebate! Where is the sullen teen Osassyio Cortez on this??
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
If you want to hate Apple, hate them for the right reasons. Apple has stated they can not crack iphones period, but that they hand over all icloud data when asked by states/federal as long as they are asked for through legal channels.
For the San Bernardino icloud data, the terrorist did not back much up to icloud, and the FBI decided to try to hack the phone themselves locking the device so Apple could not force the phone to do a current iphone back to the cloud.
Apple has been nothing but consistent in saying they can not hack iphones.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
I have read the story, and the story is false or a misunderstanding between the 2 cases. The SB terrorist did not backup to icloud so nothing was recovered, Stone did backup to icloud so his data was available.
Tim Cook said at the time when the FBI and everyone were screaming at Apple to give up the encryption keys to iphones that they have no way to break them, but as long as the phone isn’t locked requiring passcode being entered they could trigger an icloud backup and with subpoena would gladly turn it over, even created a faster way for Law Enforcement to get said data.
If you want to hate Apple, go at it, just go at for true reasons and not a story that is false from the start.
5 years ago
I entirely agree that the giant tech companies are inimical to freedom and seek to undermine the President and all who stand against the leftist agenda, however, it seems that something important has been missed here. Apple claims that the info it handed over from Stone’s accounts is the same kind of info that the company DID provide to the FBI in response to a warrant in the case of the San Bernardino jihadists:
“The information provided on Stone is the same type of information that Apple provided from the San Bernardino shooter’s device from 2016 after a warrant was served. UNLİKE THE SAN BERNARDİNO iPHONE 5C, A DEVİCE UNLOCK HAS NOT BEEN REQUESTED FOR STONE2S DEVİCES, NOR HAS ONE BEEN PERFORMED.” Emphasis mine.
Here is the link for the quote https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/03/apple-crime-blotter-roger-stones-icloud-a-siri-school-shooting-threat-and-find-my-iphone-solves-a-kidnapping
More details on what info Apple gave to the FBI about the San Bernardino jihadists here: https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/02/27/fbi-contacted-apple-received-data-related-to-san-bernardino-case-3-days-after-shooting-
5 years ago
They just want to bash apple with propaganda. hey as long as it feels good in their gut they will always have “truthiness” to fall back on.
5 years ago
SMH, the title for this story sums up the problem quite nicely
5 years ago
Never buy Apple
5 years ago
Time for Apple, Google to be broken up under RICO
5 years ago
Never purchased any of their products. Never will.
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
I agree with you. We have no phones, computers, ipads or watches from this company.
Did before, never again.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
While I hadn’t heard that before, it’s good to hear (if true). That’s my personal preference and has been for more than a decade.
5 years ago
How does freedom …. Liberty survive this ???
Apple, Gooble, FakeBook, Tweeter is completely Socialist/ fascist …. the Deep State and their organs — IRS, DOJ, FBI, NSA CIA etc are al the same. They all collectively ( since they are Collectivists) are acting with each other to bring down Constitutional Republicanism ! !
( and that aspect of democracy which makes Republican gov’t Free ).
5 years ago
The left always does seem to have an endless share of double standards.
5 years ago
Roger Stone and his wife who has serious health issues were a real threat to us all unlike those terrorists & needed to be manhandled, etc rather than go through conventional procedures and wait for them to report in with their counsel! “Us all” who matters are leftist DemocRATs but those terrorists killed only Republicans? The mind is a terrible thing to waste but those who can’t wrap their head around that deserve to wear a hibjib!
Apple is not run by Steve Jobs any more folks! Principles of privacy only apply to leftists for the benefit of leftists and now Jihadis are part of the mainstream Dim-oc-RAT Party folks so count as leftists today! Part of being Sharia compliant is recognizing the superior rights of Jihadis to those of lesser religions making up everyone else! Apple can add” “Sharia Compliant” to their list of tech specs!
5 years ago
This is another in a long line of reasons to be quite suspicious of the cloud. It is not private and never will be. In this case we see Apple taking a totally different stance based on the politics of the user.
