Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House

Re:Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House by exodust on Saturday February 27, 2016 @01:48PM (#11187970)

The focus should be to prevent the government from denying phone manufacturers the right to build bulletproof encryption into their phones. We want bullet proof encryption because the internet is an open book and people are sick of their privacy being compromised.

Consider this future scenario:

FBI: "Dear Apple, can you help us unlock this iPhone like last time?"

Apple: "No can do. It uses our latest build which is bullet proof. No backdoors possible. We'll give you all the information we have related to the account holder though."

FBI: "Dang. Thanks for info."

And that's how it should be. That's what we should be fighting for. It seems to me by fighting this current issue for Apple's right not to bust open its exploit, we've jumped the gun. It's confusing matters, and now we have polls showing half of voters want Apple to "help fight terrorism rather than not help fight terrorism".

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Re:Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House by dclowd9901 on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:55PM (#11188197)

That's the media's influence/lack of understanding/lack of objectivity, and we don't have any control over that. You're right that we should be able to focus on the right of manufacturers to delivery encryption and privacy to customers and the right of customers to have that, but every time we make that point, Comey and his dregs repeat "it's only for one phone!" So we have to start from there.

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