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Thursday, February 25, 2016
For some turned-off GOP voters,
grudging acceptance of Trump
Associated Press
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. —
Sheila &overt is worried
about Donald Trump.
A loyal Republican voter
from swing state Virginia,
&overt calls the businessman
“bombastic” and says there’s
“just no substance” in his
boastful campaign rhetoric.
But if Trump does
become the GOP presidential
nominee?
“Well, I’d de¿nitely vote
for him,” said &overt, an
81-year-old from the Rich-
mond suburb of Powhatan.
After a pause, she added,
“But I hope and pray it
doesn’t come to that.”
&overt is part of a legion
of skeptical Republican
voters across the United
States coming to grips with
the prospect that Trump,
a candidate whose appeal
they simply can’t under-
stand, may end up being
their party’s best chance for
retaking the White House.
The real estate mogul has
scored three commanding
primary victories in a
row, including Tuesday in
Nevada, and enters next
week’s delegate-rich Super
Tuesday elections in strong
position.
Interviews with about two
dozen frequent Republican
voters in Virginia — an
important general election
battleground and one of
several states with a primary
next week — reveal the
complex mix of emotions
Trump evokes within his
own party.
Among those who don’t
plan to vote for Trump in
the primary, there’s shock,
confusion and anxiety over
his candidacy. But there’s
also a grudging acceptance
of the billionaire’s political
staying power and a feeling
that despite his many Àaws,
he’d be better than another
four years with a Democrat
in the White House —
particularly if that Democrat
is Hillary &linton.
“He says things you
cannot imagine a president
saying,” said Michael Glunt,
a 2-year-old landscaper
from Midlothian. But if
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night rally
Tuesday in Las Vegas.
“This is the irst time in my 68 years
that I have truly been scared of what
is going to happen in this election.”
—Nancy Bradner,
Loyal GOP voter not supporting Donald Trump
Trump faces off against retiree from Midlothian, is
&linton in November, Glunt among the Republicans so
will cast his ballot for the turned off by Trump they
GOP nominee.
can hardly envision voting
“In this particular case, I for him if he’s the nominee.
would vote for him,” Glunt Ginther, who plans to vote
said. “Hillary &linton, I don’t for Rubio in Tuesday’s
trust her. There’s no trust.”
primary, says he’s “honestly
The voters interviewed shocked” that Trump has
by The Associated Press come as far as he has.
represent a tiny sliver of the
While some voters joke
electorate. But their views about moving to &anada if
illuminate the debate within Trump becomes president,
both parties about how a Nancy Bradner is looking
Trump nomination would at that possibility with some
play out in November.
seriousness.
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of¿cials
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are betting that Trump’s nominees including Mitt
over-the-top
rhetoric, Romney and George W.
particularly about women Bush, she’s now researching
and immigrants, would turn &anadian politics, as well
off independents and some as the country’s health care
Republicans in battleground system and housing market.
states like Virginia. Some
Bradner doesn’t know if
anxious GOP leaders share she’d really go through with
that concern, contributing a move north — “I can’t
to the sudden rush of leave my grandbabies,” she
lawmakers and other party said — but makes clear that
of¿cials rallying around “it would be an option.”
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as
“I just don’t think I could
an alternative.
be in the midst of it,” Bradner
Bill Ginther, a 69-year-old said. “This is the ¿rst time in
my 68 years that I have truly
been scared of what is going
to happen in this election.”
A recent AP-Gf. poll,
however, suggests Ginther
and Bradner may be in the
minority. The survey showed
far more Republicans than
not say they’d vote for Trump
in the general election, and
86 percent of Republican
voters think he can win in
November — giving him a
15 percentage point advan-
tage over anyone else.
For &umberland &ounty
resident Tina Shumaker, the
prospect of voting for Trump
is deeply unappealing. Her
top concern in the election
is national security, and she
can’t fathom Trump engaging
in diplomacy or being able to
keep the country safe.
But her concerns about
him pale in comparison to
her dislike of &linton. And
while Shumaker sees no
good options in a general
election contest between the
two, the 66-year-old leaves
no question about who would
get her support.
“If it would have to come
between him and Hillary,
I’m afraid he’d get my vote,”
Shumaker said. “I hope it
doesn’t turn out that way.
But it’s beginning to look
that way.”
Apple could make it tougher to hack phones
SAN FRAN&IS&O (AP) — Suppose
the FBI wins its court battle and forces
Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by
one of the San Bernardino killers. That
could open all iPhones up to potential
government scrutiny — but it’s not the
end of the story.
Turns out there’s a fair bit both indi-
viduals and Apple could do to FBI-proof
their phones and shield private informa-
tion from investigators and cybercrim-
inals alike. Those measures include
multiple passcodes and longer, more
complex ones.
Of course, increased security
typically comes at the expense of
convenience. Most efforts to improve
phone security would make the devices
harder to use, perhaps by requiring you
to remember more passwords.
Making it more dif¿cult for law
enforcement to crack open iPhones
could also spur legal restrictions on
phone security, something that neither
Apple nor other technology companies
want to see.
“They are walking a tightrope,” says
Mark Bartholomew, a law professor
at the State University of New York at
Buffalo who specializes in privacy and
encryption issues. Requiring longer
passcodes might annoy most Apple
users, he says, while boosting phone
security “sort of ampli¿es the whole
argument that Apple is making things
too dif¿cult and frustrating law enforce-
ment of¿cials.”
Apple had no comment on any
future security measures. In a recent
letter to customers, it noted that it has
routinely built “progressively stronger
protections” into its products because
“cyberattacks have only become more
frequent and more sophisticated.”
In the current ¿ght, the FBI aims to
make Apple help it guess the passcode
on the work phone used by Syed Farook
before he and his wife killed 1 people
at an of¿ce party in December. The FBI
wants Apple to create special software
to disable security features that, among
other things, render the iPhone unread-
able after 10 incorrect guesses.
Apple has resisted, maintaining that
software that opens a single iPhone
could be exploited to hack into millions
of other devices. The government insists
that its precautions would prevent that,
though security experts are doubtful.
Should the FBI prevail, it would take
computers less than a day to guess a
six-digit passcode consisting solely of
numbers, the default type of passcode in
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
An iPhone is seen in Washington on Wednesday. The San Bernardino
County-owned iPhone at the center of an unfolding high-proile legal
battle between Apple Inc. and the U.S. government lacked a device
management feature bought by the county that, if installed, would have
allowed investigators easy and immediate access.
the latest version of the iPhone operating
system. Even with security features
disabled, each passcode guess takes 80
milliseconds to process, limiting the
FBI to 12.5 guesses per second.
For security-conscious individuals,
the simplest protective move would be
to use a passcode consisting of letters
and numbers. Doing so would vastly
increase the amount of time required to
guess even short passcodes. Apple esti-
mates it would take more than ¿ve years
to try all combinations of a six-character
passcode with numbers and lowercase
letters. Adding capital letters to the mix
would extend that further.
&hanging to an alphanumeric code
is as simple as going into the phone
settings and choosing “Touch ID &
Passcode,” then “Passcode options.”
Another option is simply to pick a
much longer numeric code. An 11-char-
acter code consisting of randomly
selected numbers — that means no
references to birthdays or anniversaries
that could be easily guessed — could
take as long as 253 years to unlock.
But longer, more complex codes are
harder to remember, and that’s probably
why Apple hasn’t yet required their use.
It could, however, easily do so. In fact,
iPhones moved to six-digit passcodes
from four last September.
Apple may have other tricks up its
sleeve. For instance, the company could
add additional layers of authentication
that would thwart the security-bypassing
software the FBI wants it to make, says
computer security expert Jonathan
Zdziarski.
Apple phones rely on a feature known
as the “secure enclave” to manage all
passcode operations. The software
demanded by the FBI would alter the
secure enclave, Zdziarski says. But the
software couldn’t do so if the secure
enclave required the user passcode to
approve any such changes.
“This is probably the best way to
lock down a device,” Zdziarski says.
Apple could also require a second
passcode whenever the phone boots up;
without it, the phone wouldn’t run any
software, including the tool the FBI is
requesting. “It would be like putting a
steel door on the phone,” Zdziarski says.
&urrently, iPhones automatically load
the operating system before asking for
a passcode.
For now, Apple &EO Tim &ook is
focusing on winning the current battle
with the FBI in a Southern &alifornia
federal court while also trying to sway
public opinion in the company’s favor.
The skirmish could go all the way to the
U.S. Supreme &ourt.
In the meantime, Apple is probably
already working on security improve-
ments for the next version of the
iPhone operating system that it will
probably announce in June and release
in September.
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BRIEFLY
Obama bans U.S. imports of
slave-produced goods
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama
signed a bill Wednesday that includes a provision banning
8S imports oI ¿sh caught by slaves in Southeast Asia,
gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by
abused women in Bangladesh, closing a loophole in an
85-year-old tariff law that has failed to keep products of
forced and child labor out of America.
An expose by The Associated Press last year found
Thai companies ship seafood to the U.S. that was caught
and processed by trapped and enslaved workers. As a
result of the reports, more than 2,000 trapped ¿shermen
have been rescued, more than a do]en alleged traf¿ckers
arrested and millions of dollars’ worth of seafood and
vessels seized.
Until now, U.S. customs law banning imports of
items produced by forced or child labor had gone largely
unenforced because of two words: “consumptive demand”
— if there was not suf¿cient supply to meet domestic
demand, imports were allowed regardless of how they
were produced.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who offered the
amendment eliminating that exception, said Wednesday
his of¿ce is already asking U.S. &ustoms and Border
Protection to ensure they begin enforcing the new rules
when the law takes effect in 15 days.
“It’s embarrassing that for 85 years, the United States
let products made with forced labor into this country, and
closing this loophole gives the U.S. an important tool to
¿ght global slavery,” he said.
White House considers Nevada
Gov. Sandoval for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is
considering Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada
as a possible nominee to the Supreme &ourt, two people
familiar with the process said Wednesday.
The nomination of a Republican would be seen as an
attempt by President Barack Obama to break the Senate
GOP blockade of any of his choices. Senate Majority
/eader Mitch Mc&onnell, R-.y., has said his 5-member
GOP caucus is opposed to holding con¿rmation hearings
or vote on Obama’s pick, insisting that the choice rests
with the next president.
The of¿cials declined to be named because they
weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
Mari St. Martin, Sandoval’s communications director,
said Wednesday that the governor hasn’t been contacted
by the White House.
“Neither Gov. Sandoval nor his staff has been contacted
by or talked to the Obama administration regarding any
potential vetting for the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme
&ourt,” she said.
Sandoval met with Senate Democratic Leader Harry
Reid on Monday in Washington while he was in town for
a meeting of the National Governors Association.
At the governors’ meeting over the weekend, Sandoval
said he was honored his name was mentioned as a
potential successor for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, but
had heard nothing to think the Democratic president is
considering him.
Before Sandoval, 52, became the state’s ¿rst Hispanic
governor, he was the state’s ¿rst Hispanic federal judge.
He supports abortion rights, a position that might assuage
some Democrats nervous about the nomination of a
Republican. But liberal groups came out against the idea.
Senate GOP leader holds fast in
blocking Obama court pick
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic foes gloat that
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc&onnell has guided his
Republicans into a political dead end with his unbending
edict that President Barack Obama’s successor will ¿ll the
Supreme &ourt vacancy of Justice Antonin Scalia.
The six-term .entucky Republican has abysmal public
approval ratings nationwide. Polling suggests independent
voters side with Obama on the issue. Editorial boards
insist the president should ¿ll the vacancy now.
But Mc&onnell, the architect and face of the GOP
strategy to block Obama’s upcoming pick, appears entirely
comfortable, even as he upends Senate precedent by
denying even a hearing to a nominee.
And anybody who’s observed Mc&onnell over the
years knows he’s not changing his mind.
“My view, and I can now con¿dently say the view
shared by virtually everybody in my conference, is that
the nomination should be made by the president the
people elect in the election that’s under way right now,”
Mc&onnell told reporters after emerging from a closed-
door meeting with GOP senators this week.
That Republicans would stymie any pick by Obama
should be no surprise. If Scalia is replaced by a liberal
or moderate Obama nominee, the balance of the court
would change, with potentially enormous consequences
for issues like abortion, union rights, immigration and
congressional redistricting this year alone.
If there’s a political cost, and that’s a big “if,” it’s one
that has to be paid.
Mc&onnell never makes a move without thinking
of the consequences for his colleagues. The GOP is
defending 2 Senate seats in November to the Democrats’
10, including six in states Obama won twice.
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