iPhone + Blender = iShake
Posted by d3bruts1d on July 10, 2007 at 5:01 pm

So, you went out and spent $600.00 on a brand new Apple iPhone. What are you to do with it now? Stick it in a high powered blender of course! The question is, will it blend?

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    I would have posted a response to this had I noticed it earlier. The iPhone might be a great thing and all, but there is one issue that I have with it. There is a device built into the iPhones called a TPM, or Trusted Platform Module. These devices allow certain information-collecting agencies of the government to tap directly into the phone using the backdoor that is the TPM. They can retrieve all of your information, and possibly even listen into your calls.

    This is bad because, while some would say that it is another tool useful for catching terrorists, recent legislation now allows for continuous wiretapping of US civilian communications, and this program is permanent. It effectively blocks any use of the 4th amendment and Congress from any sort of protection or oversight. The biggest piece of legislation responsible is the so-called "surveillance gap legislation" that's supposed to be a security update to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

    In effect, if you own an iPhone, you own one of many devices that do or are being planned to contain hardware that serves as a backdoor usable by the government and possibly even hackers. Given the legislation that has been passed recently, It could be used on ordinary citizens. And if you don't believe that, just look back to the wiretapping scandal of just last year involving the NSA, the White House, and such companies as AT&T and Verizon.
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    BTW, that was a cool video.

    I wanted to edit my previous comment to include that as a P.S., but I don't know how to edit comments.
 

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