You won’t hear me say this often, but on this occasion, I stand firmly with Apple.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook says the FBI’s court order to access the mobile phone of San Bernardino killer Syed Farook is “dangerous”, “chilling” and “unprecedented”.
I would rather the FBI’s investigation be hindered than the state have a back door to our phones. Because, of course, it will be abused, it will go wrong and some cretin will leave the encryption key on a train.
The state cannot be trusted. At least I know where I stand with terrorists.
Lee Rigby’s family disagree. Well, they would. However, good law is made dispassionately and they are not dispassionate.
Mr Rigby’s uncle Ray McClure said the company was “protecting a murderer’s privacy at the cost of public safety”.
A society that is willing to trade liberty (privacy) for security, deserves neither. Still people don’t get it.
At first, I thought, come on Apple, what is the big deal. But the more I think about it the more I agree with you. It is a big deal.
Routine access by the FBI? No way.
Court order? You’d like to assume there was the same level of scrutiny as required for a search warrant – but this is America we’re talking about…
Yes,, I am sure that since the press are in the business of using tragedy “celebs” to make the emotional, weeping support for this policy, that the family of Millie Dowler will testify to what it’s like when someone hacks your phone
I fail to understand why the FBI can’t give the phone to Apple and then Apple give them a data dump – but not provide a key or back door that could be misused or applied to any other phone. That would appear to me as a sensible compromise in important cases where a judge has decreed the FBI should have the data without compromising security for anyone else.
But Apple doesn’t have the ability to access the data to do a dump because they don’t want to be able to do so, they’d have to write the necessary software but don’t believe said software should exist.
Je suis Apple.