[Guardian] Analysts and lawmakers warn FBI that ramifications over its demand that Apple unlock San Bernardino killer's iPhone 'could snowball around the world.' Authoritarian governments including Russia and China will demand greater access to mobile data should Apple lose a watershed encryption case brought by the FBI, leading technology analysts, privacy experts and legislators have warned.
Who owns the 'different' iOS with back-door after it's been created? Apple? The FBI? Is the FBI required to erase all their copies after use? How do we verify that?
What if other law enforcement agencies want it? The NSA?
What if Apple starts getting "requests" from law enforcement that aren't backed up with a judicial order?
Mr. Cook is exactly right. We can fight terrorism and crime without compromising our civil liberties. Few of us trust a government that unleashes Lois Lerner and Eric Holder on the population, and then covers up for them.
And as this piece correctly notes, whatever the U.S. government gets, the Russians and Chinese (and Indians, and Japanese, and French, and Germans, and Pakistanis) will get as well. That is what keeps Mr. Cook awake at night. |
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