The backdoor is closed for the Federal government, said Tim Cook (no homo).
The FBI wants to access the iPhone of one of the San Berndino terrorists, but cannot, since it’s encrypted. Apple’s phones are not to be fucked with and the gov’t hates not being able to pry into citizen privacy. In this case, the terrorist phones should be accessed, for security purposes.
But Tim Cook doesn’t want to establish a precedent here and is resisting.
If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterJudge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said on Tuesday that Apple must provide “reasonable technical assistance” to investigators seeking to unlock data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook.
In a letter to Apple’s customers, Cook said the FBI had asked the company to build “a backdoor to the iPhone.”
“The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals,” he said.
“We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack.”
Excellent PR move.
This is the only reason I would go back to Apple. Their phones are shitty and expensive and their OS sucks, iTunes sucks, everything about their phone environment sucks. They trap you into paying for cloud service rather than allowing a micro SD card. You can’t remove the battery. I know babies that can break Gorilla Glass. Safari is awful.
Everything about Android is better except that when comparing the files kept on you by Alphabet and Apple, Apple apparently uses said file for their purposes only and will not share their file on you with others unless their is a business purpose from which they can bank some coin.
So I guess Tim Cook is just telling the govt to show him the money.
God I hate tech companies.
Ridiculous, every time I use an Android phone I want to throw it in the trash within 10 minutes.
Because you, like many others, only understand the Apple environment which is designed for toddlers. Apple is why millennials are so stupid. No offense, naturally.
lolz. The homos at Apple are protecting the terrorist’s backdoor. Sharia/Apple pie?
The issue of establishing a precedent is an important one. Private companies should not be used as tentacles of the NSA. People should have some privacy.