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Sequences. Does he have does he have could be. The Justice Department has ended its legal battle to force apple to unlock an iphone beginning to one of the san bernardinos phones. It says it has unlocked the phone and is analyzing the information inside. Jacob live for us in san francisco. This has been a long, hard fit. How did the government finally, unlock the phone . Reporter its not clear what method they used. Many are pointing at a probable rewriting of a flash memory on a copying of its memory off of the phone and then recopying back on whenever you need to once you get to a number of unlock attacks. Thats what unlocked locked them out. If its too many times. Like loading a saved game right at the point where the game is hardest getting back to the first part of the donkey kong level. They think thats what if it is. The timing, they had looked at a third party solution. It came on a sunday. Led a lot of observers to think this might have been a defendant contract with some sort
Today we are joined by some esteemed panelist skisll bro abuse tremendous briefly. Jonathan holloway is a professor and teen of yale college the author of a number of volumes, most importantly, jim crow wisdom were also joined by Marcus Hunter Marcus Hunter holds appointments in africanamerican studies at yale and professor in sociology joining the attend of ucla this fall right . He is the author of the phenomenal back, black city makers. How the philadelphia anything grow changed urban america. Walter moseley is here. The phenomenal novelist, whose book [applause] whose books are too numerous to mention. So well move along to the wonderful, brilliant delightful, ammann any perry, the author of two major books on racial inequality in the United States and prophets of the hood politics politics and poetics in hiphop and finally but not least, the author of most recently ross unbound and he is unbound in that text. A writer in his books and a staffer at the the new yorker. Our moderator
Where Bobby Levinson the fbi, former fbi agent is incarcerated in my ram what are you thinking . Whats going on but nobody seems to know whats going on. In the Intelligence Community. What happened with tom mikhail was he was a Port Authority detective in new york, lived in new jersey and he befriended the family which are bolded just that live in iran and they are by our definition terrorist groups. He was reporting on them it was not his responsibility to say, hey, theres going to be an attack in a week and decide whether we would tell the iranians or not. Thats a political decision. Its unfortunate because the iranians are going to react very badly to this he may be doing this but there was no control over him. And he was detailed by intelligent when his contract expiredded they said go, and well pay you later. This is an fbi agent, kidnapped arrested i think they found these emails from the cia on his email his phone or computer. What my probably roughed up and died of a heart atta
Plus short stories, nonfiction and historical novels. But stephen king is most known for his horror books, which hes the queen iconic figures to pop culture. Well, the evil clown pennywise the rabid dog, who jo and he, himself became a character in the simpsons. 400000000 copies of his books have been sold worldwide. And yeah, shakespeare is well above that with 1000000000 and even more. Harry potter books have been sold, but 400000000 is still a lot of readers. Thats more readers than the entire population of the united states. Meaning that you could make an entire nation out of stephen king readers, and it would out number all of the u. S. Americans on the planet. Maybe thats a concept for a new novel. Stephen king has one just about every award there is to win. And in 2014 president obama presented him with the National Metal parts. But theres, i dont think, well, ever see, ah, this years nobel prize and literature is awarded to a a ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, lets just go at the thought ex