Maggie's Farm

I will break the Apple phone for the FBI for $1 million. There are two major hurdles to accessing the data and the software. The first is getting around the hardware roadblocks. Luckily this is much easier to do if you have access to multiple iphones. That is you acquire a couple of identical iphones to work with and potentially make mistakes with. Also it is unlikely that there are any significant roadblocks on the phone simply because these tend to be too tricky and prone to cause problems and therefore aren't used in commercial hardware. So bypass any problems and download the memory chip(s). Second problem is to separate the software from the data AND to interpret the software. It is in machine language and typically too large a program for the human mind to comprehend. So you write a program to interpret it, map it, create flow charts from it and identify what is the program and what is the data. Again this is made easier by the access to other identical iphones where you can control what is on the phone and thus make it easier to map the memory. This is a trial and error process requiring many changes to the program you use to interpret the Apple operating system. Programmers hate machine language and it is simply not typical that programs and especially operating systems are written using machine language so it is both foreign and to them and obtuse (for good reason). So this is the tough part but it can be done. Eventually you would have two products; 1, all of the data, 2 the operating system (and a full understanding of the operating system sufficient to disable features and add capability to it).

What you still have to solve it the encryption problem. IT becomes incredibly easier at this point but still a tough nut to crack. BUT most people pick something they can remember and something that is meaningful to them. I would start with a encryption cracking program that used the quran as a source for keys and run the process on multiple computers. No guarantees but a decent chance you can find the key. I don't want to candy coat this part of the problem it may turn out to be uncrackable but it may not too. But no matter much of the important data will not be encrypted so at this point the job is done hand me the $1 million check.

Was this:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-shooting-idUSKCN0VZ15K
also racism? Or is this kind of thing simply an evil person or an insane person? If they did it while quoting the bible would you call it religion?

Is "black lives matter" racism?

Is claiming that little Travon Martin had a right to beat poor George Zimmerman senseless and for George to shoot him in self defense was because he was a racist, a racist point of view?

Is claiming that the gentle giant Micheal Brown was shot while he had his hands up racist?

What, exactly, is racist? Is having to write what race you are on a government form, racist? Is everything racist?

Without spending a lot of time studying that young man's life and past acts I truly do not know if he was racist and neither do you. I suspect he is not all there and because of the news trends and commentary decided he needed to take action. This is no different from the thousands and perhaps tens of thousands of incidents where someone who is mentally challenged commits a crime because of some crazy interpretation of events or reporting of events. Was he really racist or simply crazy like so many other criminals?


Are you suggesting that the BLM crowd who beat up and have even killed white people (by your definition that is racist) are not themselves racist criminals? Just saying "black lives matter" is intentionally and unnecessarily racially provocative. These BLM people are neo-apartheidists espousing racist violence.

Black people are stupid and violent. Do you deny the obvious. I wish it weren’t true but the facts are the facts. Black people do see everything through a racial lens. To believe otherwise would imply you don’t know many black people. But I’ll stand by my original point which is I am simply not sure he is a racist. He makes racist statements and certainly committed a hate crime but I suspect he is crazy and like the actions of so many crazy people it is just inexplicable.

To be honest with you I tend to believe that one someone asks for a citation they are simply trying to change the subject. You could not possibly be so uninformed that you are unaware of the numerous cases of violence in the name of the BLM crowd including a half dozen or more police killed. So do your homework and don’t ask me to do it.