{"id":3251,"date":"2014-09-30T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T01:31:47","slug":"automobiles-and-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Automobiles and Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> For those who have been off-planet and haven&#8217;t heard the news, Apple&#8217;s iOS 8 encrypts the contents of users&#8217; iPhone and iPads in such a way that <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2014\/09\/apple-expands-data-encryption-under-ios-8-making-handover-to-cops-moot\/\">only the user&#x2014;not Apple&#x2014;can access it<\/a>. That means that Apple can no longer respond to warrants from law enforcement asking that they unlock users&#8217; data<sup><a id=\"fnr.1\" name=\"fnr.1\" class=\"footref\" href=\"#fn.1\">1<\/a><\/sup>. <\/p>\n<p> Naturally, law enforcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/09\/25\/politics\/fbi-apple-google-privacy\/index.html\">is upset<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2014\/09\/26\/what-a-shocker-fbi-head-complains-about-apple-and-googles-encryption-practices\/\">Very upset<\/a>. There&#8217;s the usual punditry about pedophiles and \u201cthink of the children\u201d but Christopher Soghoian reminds us that they always say this sort of thing <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The Michigan Supreme Court, 1922: Cars are tools for robbery, rape, murder, enabling silent approach + swift escape. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/li1fnij8Xq\">pic.twitter.com\/li1fnij8Xq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/csoghoian\/status\/515499402598051841\">September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <b>UPDATE<\/b>: The Macalope has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2688435\/exactly-backwards.html\">roundup of the idiocy about this issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"footnotes\">\n<h2 class=\"footnotes\">Footnotes: <\/h2>\n<div id=\"text-footnotes\">\n<div class=\"footdef\"><sup><a id=\"fn.1\" name=\"fn.1\" class=\"footnum\" href=\"#fnr.1\">1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"footpara\"> At least that data not stored in iCloud, which Apple can access and is legally obliged to turn over when presented with a warrant. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have been off-planet and haven&#8217;t heard the news, Apple&#8217;s iOS 8 encrypts the contents of users&#8217; iPhone and iPads in such a way that only the user&#x2014;not Apple&#x2014;can access it. That means that Apple can no longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=3251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}