Re: Apple climbs on the cybergeddon bandwagon

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: July 29, 2009 3:31:35 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Apple climbs on the cybergeddon bandwagon

This reminds me of the rationale put forward by AT&T in the Carterfone  
case.  (I don't think the Hush-a-Phone case involved bringing the  
entire world to a crashing halt, but perhaps someone who was closer to  
that earlier case would know).

If this were actually true - that a single iPhone hack could bring  
down the world - then we are doomed already.  Frankly, I would be  
happy to testify based on facts on the Carterfone side of this  
ridiculous argument.  But more importantly, the "new AT&T" and its  
lawyers (and now Apple) would do well to see how well that argument  
prevented the catastrophe that hit AT&T due to Judge Green's breakup  
of the "old AT&T".   (well, it was a catastrophe to the old AT&T, but  
served the world quite well, IMO).

Monopolies with huge bank accounts to buy Congress's attention will  
always try these ridiculous scaremongering arguments. It's the  
corporate version of scare the people.   (remember that 802.11 was  
going to cause planes to crash, and even had some "experts" who  
claimed that planes *had* crashed, before we got the latest news that  
the corporate wifi provider market was locked up by a politically  
connected provider or two?)





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