Apple v. FBI
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:04 am
As most people probably know, the FBI and Apple are duking it out in court, because Apple isn't "letting the FBI into the San Bernadino iPhone"
The problem isn't that Apple is saying "Yeah, we don't want to help", because that's simply not true.. As much as I don't like Apple, I actually kind of side with them on this.
Apple has helped the FBI in the sense that they gave them all that they had access to (iCloud backup, stuff like that), but the FBI wants in to the phone, as the backup is several weeks old.. Reasonable.
What the FBI is asking Apple to do though, is to create a software that can backdoor into an iPhone, so that Law Enforcement can get into suspect phones.. Also reasonable.. kind of?
However, Apple's argument, which was the point that won me over to their side, is that, they don't want to create a backdoor into their devices, because that completely undoes all the work they put into encrypting their software to begin with. On top of that, the reason that they don't want to make a backdoor into the phones, is because they know the Internet, and they know how savvy hackers are, and they know that if they put in a backdoor, it's only a matter of time before it falls into the wrong hands, and Apple simply doesn't want to hand up our privacy to hackers on a silver platter..
John Oliver says it best (Has swearing and, thus NSFW, though why would you be watching YouTube at work anyways?)
The problem isn't that Apple is saying "Yeah, we don't want to help", because that's simply not true.. As much as I don't like Apple, I actually kind of side with them on this.
Apple has helped the FBI in the sense that they gave them all that they had access to (iCloud backup, stuff like that), but the FBI wants in to the phone, as the backup is several weeks old.. Reasonable.
What the FBI is asking Apple to do though, is to create a software that can backdoor into an iPhone, so that Law Enforcement can get into suspect phones.. Also reasonable.. kind of?
However, Apple's argument, which was the point that won me over to their side, is that, they don't want to create a backdoor into their devices, because that completely undoes all the work they put into encrypting their software to begin with. On top of that, the reason that they don't want to make a backdoor into the phones, is because they know the Internet, and they know how savvy hackers are, and they know that if they put in a backdoor, it's only a matter of time before it falls into the wrong hands, and Apple simply doesn't want to hand up our privacy to hackers on a silver platter..
John Oliver says it best (Has swearing and, thus NSFW, though why would you be watching YouTube at work anyways?)