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The Talk Show With John Gruber

148: ‘Occupy Portland’ With John Moltz

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2016

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the Apple/FBI encryption fight, Apple’s upcoming event and the products they’re expected to announce. And Campo Santo’s fantastic new video game “Firewatch”.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think about sitting up a business on lock and iPhones.

0:04.2

It's easy, I hear.

0:06.2

Wow, it's going nuts though.

0:08.4

It's like, and I kind of feel like I kind of called it where it's like, I mean, I don't

0:13.3

think it's just very hard to, it wasn't like I'm the only one who made it unique observation.

0:21.0

It's far from a slam dunk because it's largely, at least so far, being tried in a court

0:27.3

of public opinion, not in a court of law.

0:31.7

Except for today.

0:32.7

Yeah, so it's actually like late breaking news.

0:36.2

Can you explain this?

0:37.2

I think you're probably better informed than I am.

0:39.8

Well, no, I wouldn't say that.

0:43.5

In another case, not the one that is really at the forefront of all this, a federal judge

0:48.8

in Brooklyn today ruled that the government could not force Apple to unlock a phone, an

0:56.5

iPhone.

0:57.3

I guess that they, I don't, again, was this publicized at all?

1:01.5

Do we know that this case was coming or just drop out of the thin air?

1:05.6

Well, there were, I mean, they had talked about several other cases in which the, you

1:10.5

know, not necessarily the FBI, but other, you know, like district attorneys and things,

1:18.4

and you know, other jurisdictions, they were trying to get Apple to unlock phones in order

1:22.2

to get information for not necessarily terrorism related cases, but just like, you know,

1:27.8

racketeering drugs, what do I mean?

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