Posted on 02/17/2016 4:20:38 AM PST by John W
LOS ANGELES Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday said a court order demanding the company create a "backdoor" into the cellphone data of the San Bernardino, Calif., attackers was "chilling" and "dangerous."
In a letter to customers, Cook expressed his opposition to the court order.
"The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand," Cook wrote. "Compromising the security of our personal information can ultimately put our personal safety at risk. That is why encryption has become so important to all of us. For many years, we have used encryption to protect our customers' personal data because we believe it's the only way to keep their information safe. We have even put that data out of our own reach, because we believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business."
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Pointless posing ,, the NSA will simply have Taiwan Semi do it for them.
Maybe just a cheap movie plot...but with bammy and his cohorts in crime? I don't think there is anything they would not do.
But I thought Cook liked the back door?
Apple, and he, succeed and make humongous profits on the freedoms that we are afforded here.
The San Bernardino killers and their ilk are enemies of the US....they are bent on destroying our freedoms and everything we stand for.
It is an atrocity that Apple would allow these killers to continue their destruction of America.
I hope Cook holds steady to his position that compromising one phone compromises every phone, and that even the heinous nature of the San Bernadino terror attack does not justify compromising every law-abiding citizen’s privacy. And that applies to every other device out there.
You just said a mouthful there.
Glad to see the obligatory (and by now utterly banal and trite) comment on Cook's personal habits has been added to this thread right away. No point waiting around for it... :-)
My opinion is that Apple should be using an encryption scheme for which there is no backdoor entry. Why did Apple include a backdoor even though they haven’t implemented the backdoor opener yet. Why haven’t they already implemented it?
My guideline is, if I had super-secret information, don’t keep it on a cell phone.
Personal habits? OK.
Odd that the folks that let the media circus rampage through the killers home are now worried about evidence. If you want to catch jihadists, look at the mosques, bastions of enemy combatants hiding in plain sight. Whatever happened to the jihadi’s momma ? I bet if you waterboarded that hag she’d remember a thing or two.
Agree!!! Spot in, Liz!
Keep up the fight for terrorists’ privacy rights. Tell us how you you like jail Timmy!
Thanks for whining about someone mentioning the fact that cook is an avowed low-class sodomite. I knew some limp-wristed “conservative” would eventually complain about it.
So ... what?
Do you want Apple (et al.) to provide NSA with a back-door into their products?
If you want the NSA snooping around in your phone, feel free to give them your password.
The rest of us would prefer to keep our privacy.
“The San Bernardino killers and their ilk are enemies of the US....they are bent on destroying our freedoms and everything we stand for.”
You cannot give the US government the ability to spy on Americans. They cannot be trusted with it. The price we pay is to also deny them the ability to spy on terrorists.
These folks were already on the radar of the US government, yet they did nothing.
THAT is how you stop terrorists - by acting BEFORE they kill people, not by hacking their phones AFTER they kill people.
Our intelligence, and our law enforcement has become lazy. They rely on being able to track, hack and spy on people from the comfort of their chair. They do not wish to do actual work that requires getting out of a chair.
That is the biggest danger to the US, not unbreakable encryption.
Further, the ability to hack encryption means that the US bureaucracy will use that ability to influence decision makers though blackmail and other illegal means. I worry more about that than any terrorist.
So the lack of encryption is a bigger threat to the republic than terrorism, in my opinion.
Is Cook claiming. there is no way to break into this one phone without unleashing the hounds of hell and compromising the privacy of every iphone owner?
Sounds pretty far fetched.
Hey Mr. Apple, you’d do it, if I were in charge, or, your company would cease to exist and the land where your building once stood will be bare ground sown with a 6 inch bed of salt so nothing would ever grow there again for generations. Have I expressed myself sufficiently?
It establishes a bad precedent. Government abuse of bad precedent is a daily occurrence. Some federal agencies’ whole existence is an abuse of bad precedent. There’s nothing ‘far fetched’ about it.
Who do you support for President in 2016?
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