What would have happened if Coatesville PD Officer Amy W. Nicholl had an iPhone 6?

The iPhone 6 is just the first product designed to stifle the NSA. Any manufacturer that doesn’t follow Apple’s lead will fail. 

Security Officials Fear iPhone 6 Marks New Era of Products Designed to Skirt N.S.A. 

By Daniel Politi 

“Under its new operating system for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices, “once users set a passcode, Apple will no longer be able to unlock your device—even if ordered to do so by a court,” as Matthew Green explained in Slate earlier this week. That means if a court orders Apple to reveal the contents of a phone, all it will be able to turn over is a set of nonsensical data… 

While security agencies worry about what this could mean to fight terrorism and other types of criminal activity, company executives say the U.S. government only has itself to blame. Revelations of the widespread nature of government eavesdropping has made everyone very suspicious of U.S. products. “Surviving in the global marketplace—especially in places like China, Brazil and Germany—depends on convincing consumers that their data is secure,” notes the Times. And as Green noted in his Slate piece, focusing only on the U.S. government is “shortsighted” considering that Apple has retail stores in 14 countries and sells phones in many more places: /The United States is not the only government with law enforcement, or with an interest in its citizens’ data.”  

N.S.A made it’s bed.  Now it will sleep in it. 

But all police departments are in the same bed. They are complaining it will prevent them from solving crimes. 

It will also prevent them from committing crimes:

You can argue about the change being better or worse but if Coatesville Police Officer Amy W. Nicholl had an iPhone 6 we would have a different Coatesville Police Department right now. 

Nobody would have been able to view “inappropriate” texts from Chief M. Julius Canale as well as sex videos featuring her and Lt. Chris McEvoy, a member of the department with whom she was having an affair, records said.” 

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