iPhone Jihad: Brought to you by Apple

The FBI tells Apple to spend a couple of million dollars building a breakin tool for them, rather than hiring engineers and spending their own cash. This is indeed Obamanation! Papa Stalin would be so proud.

This won't be the "one time thing" trumpeted by the FBI. Nothing this useful could be "one time." The resulting breakin software would be in every government agency within a month, then in the hands of every criminal hacker within two months.

Shortly thereafter it will be the IRS demanding "Give us the phone, kulak, you have no right against self-incrimination."

Which won't be amusing.

I hate Apple more than I hate finding last week's oozing dog log under the couch. The company is arrogant, elitist and corrupt. It buys components from sweatshops where the "dormitories" have nets to catch suiciding workers. It is neither reasonable nor sane for them to say "Fixed our phone somewhere else, did you? Well, we're going to break it permanently by remote control. That'll fix you."

It galls me no end to say that in this case, I think they're correct. But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

But I ain't.