He looks like someone who can name two pawn shops within driving distance and provide user reviews for each.

Frank Sinatra was older than this guy and he was never too old for it. I like fedoras and wish they would make a comeback so everything can look like a noir movie.

Not always, it worked for him with a caftan!

Or, maybe, you are too young to appreciate the wonders of a good hat.

No, I think that just because you say something can exist doesn’t necessarily mean it will. And until you can explain exactly how you can put a back door into standard phone encryption that doesn’t allow the people with access to it to have access to everyone’s data on that phone platform, you’re pissing in the wind.…

You can overflow a bottle one drop at a time.
and a very little of our privacy has been removed, one at a time for the past 15 years, when you aggregate them, you have a lot of privacy that has been removed... a little by little.

You can doubt what you like, but your doubts don’t change actual facts. The actual fact is that designing a secure system necessarily involves making it so that there is no way for the designer to break in. (It involves more than that, of course.)

The problem is that if a backdoor exists, then it can be discovered by a criminal third party, and used to circumvent your security. (Just as they discover security holes all the time.) But if it’s legally mandated, the Apple can’t patch the hole when it’s discovered. The backdoor has NO WAY to distinguish a police…

I suggest your favorite set of headphones, I like the ATH M50x, paired with a modmic.

I suggest your favorite set of headphones, I like the ATH M50x, paired with a modmic.