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Lavabit and the Strong Arm of Big Brother USA | 60 comments (60 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Apple patents government backdoor (4.00 / 3)
Does this mean that other companies won't be able to let the government disable them because Apple has a patent?
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Tue Aug 13th, 2013 at 04:33:01 AM EST
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Re: Apple patents government backdoor (4.00 / 7)
Nono, it means that when the political police demands that they build in such a back-door, they will also have to pay royalties to Apple.

You will get the privilege of paying for the loss of your ability to film police at work.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Aug 13th, 2013 at 04:46:10 AM EST
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Re: Apple patents government backdoor (4.00 / 6)
This is another, in a long series, of absurd patents granted by the USPTO that will, eventually, be over-turned at a cost of millions in legal fees.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Tue Aug 13th, 2013 at 12:09:49 PM EST
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