iPhone: recommended by Terrorists.

The actions of this CEO are at best mis-guided at worst, treasonable.  They put all of America at risk from a preventable ISIS attack.  

From a business standpoint, his actions alienate a great portion of his customer base.  

Clearly, his intention is to project the image that iphones are impregnable as a selling point, clearly, the CEO of Apple has demonstrated very bad judgement and jeopardized his corporations profit and standing in the US.

The only threat to America is from anarchists like ISIS, This has nothing to do with revealing the secret code of the iphone to the government, which is not even required to unlock the phone of a terrorist in cooperation with the FBI, to keep America safe from those desiring to murder American men women and children.

This phone is not the phone of an American citizen, whose rights to freedom of speech are protected by the constitution.   It is the phone of a sworn enemy combatant, who has no rights under constitutional law, who is NOT an American citizen, even  if they were, then they are guilty of sedition and treason, and again, are not accorded right to protection to  to plan and commit their act of terrorism against American citizens.

 There was a time, when our nation was populated by men and women of the  Greatest Generation who fought against a similar monster to ISIS, namely Hitler, that rendering aid and comfort to a sworn enemy was viewed as an act of treason, All Americans were dedicated to revealing enemy communications, NOT SHIELDING THEM FROM VIEW..

It is an  abject poverty of thought to  conflate the rights of American citizens with the rights of an enemy combatant, of such monsterous intention as  destroying America and murdering innocent men women and children. The delusion that the United States Government is a greater enemy to American families than ISIS is beyond the pale of reason. 

And by the way... this corporation that created this iphone can take the phone, unlock it and give it back unlocked... , which reveals nothing about how to unlock it.

The actual unlock sequence, if these people  were really smart, would be tied to a second unscramabling data point, such as a timedatecode from the phone itself perhaps with some encoded and readable tertiary information with an algorithm, thus any unlock sequence would be worthless at any subsequent time and the time of the application would be unknowable, without the algorithm, as which need not be revealed  ..

Now, by the way, the timedatecode in an iphone is derived from cell towers and GPS signals.  While there is some small short term variance due to multipath distortion, the longer term accuracy, when disciplined to a quartz oscillator is that of a primary NIST timing standard, Namely a Cesium Atomic clock (beam) reference.  So it certainly may be part of the security algorithm.

 And, i would know this since i did work on the hardware that secured such an algorithm  for Interbank of South Africa, many years ago.  Additionally, there may be hardware unlocking access points available by ion etching and fib the trick is knowing where, which the designers would known.  Be that as it may and i assume the sequence is of this nature, and thus secure as any unlocked phone. FBI has merely and rightfully asked for help  is merely accessing a backdoor with the same security as the front door.   the password from the owner, in this case, a group intent on murdering Americans and destroying America... sorry, privacy is a NO SALE HERE.. since the FBI has been unable to crack it, it is how i would have designed it, All Apple devices are lockable. You can buy a used Apple device, more likely than not, it will still be locked. You can unlock it, but that deletes all the data, this is available to everyone. The only reason to unlock a device and not erase the data is to preserve the privacy of the user. Terrorists have no right to privacy. Apple NEEDS TO COOPERATE IN THE DEFENSE OF AMERICA AND UNLOCK THE PHONE... OTHERWISE... Apple is aiding and abetting ISIS, who have NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY, as they are our declared and sworn enemy, it is very clear.

I do hope the board fires their CEO, for cause,  immediately..

Lastly, i want to thank the FBI fort their honorable and dedicated work in defense of America, of our homeland and especially of my family.  I wish them good fortune in cracking this code and using it as needed to crack terrorist communications, even  without the aid of a terrorist supporting organization such as  corporations operating under the protection of the United States which are acting to shield terrorist data. In the Greatest Generation, this action by anyone would be considered treason.

My opinions are my opinions only,  and not those of any political candidate or party.