{"id":11384,"date":"2015-10-23T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/doj-to-apple-your-software-is-licensed-not-sold\/"},"modified":"2015-10-23T21:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T21:35:22","slug":"doj-to-apple-your-software-is-licensed-not-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/doj-to-apple-your-software-is-licensed-not-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/131761000435\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/3e392f5e56dbd5356856e71c2b0164b8\/tumblr_inline_nwos4qjIqP1rkw4x1_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The DoJ is currently trying to force Apple to decrypt data stored on a defendant\u2019s Iphone, and Apple, to its great credit, is fighting back, arguing that on the one hand, it doesn\u2019t have the technical capability to do so; and on the other, should not be required to do so.<\/p>\n<p>A new filing from the DoJ attacks this second point in a novel and far-reaching way. The Justice Department lawyers argue that because Apple licenses its software \u2013 as opposed to selling it outright \u2013 that it isappropriate for the government to demand that Apple provide assistance in its legal cases.<\/p>\n<p>To my knowledge, this is an entirely novel argument, but as I say, it has far-reaching consequences. Virtually every commercial software vendor licenses its products, rather than selling them. If the DoJ establishes the precedent that a product\u2019s continued ownership interest in a product after it is sold obliges the company to act as agents of the state, this could ripple out to cars and pacemakers, voting machines and tea-kettles, thermostats and CCTVs and door locks and every other device with embedded software.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/10\/23\/doj-to-apple-your-software-is.html\">Read the rest<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: The DoJ is currently trying to force Apple to decrypt data stored on a defendant\u2019s Iphone, and Apple, to its great credit, is fighting back, arguing that on the one hand, it doesn\u2019t have the technical capability to do so; and on the other, should not be required to do so. A new filing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2XC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}