Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security
by matthewmacleod on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:58AM
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I guess when the FBI compels them again
That's a bit of a specious argument though – of course, if they produce different software in the future, it could be used again!
If the FBI want their own ability to sign Apple updates, then that's obviously a different situation. But the point you were making – that it's not possible to write software that will run on only one device – is not true in this case.
This is not mysterious. Can the FBI require a software company to subvert their own security guarantees? Should they? Do bank vaults have back doors for the FBI?
That's a bit of a specious argument though – of course, if they produce different software in the future, it could be used again!
If the FBI want their own ability to sign Apple updates, then that's obviously a different situation. But the point you were making – that it's not possible to write software that will run on only one device – is not true in this case.
This is not mysterious. Can the FBI require a software company to subvert their own security guarantees? Should they? Do bank vaults have back doors for the FBI?
I don't really know the right answer.