Well... it didn't turn Steve into a passive aggressive homophobe. =P
Seriously though, a reason isn't an excuse...
Dying is a REASON to to be bitter; not an EXCUSE to publicly make disparaging commentary about people's sexuality.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: FBI's Backdoor Would Be 'Software Equivalent of Cancer'
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Well... it didn't turn Steve into a passive aggressive homophobe. =P
Seriously though, a reason isn't an excuse...
Dying is a REASON to to be bitter; not an EXCUSE to publicly make disparaging commentary about people's sexuality.
Thanks very much (honestly no sarcasm) for showing that not everyone takes every thing said in the world as personally offensive.
I think you just stumbled onto the next James Bond movie plot.
Glad this guy is speaking out. We need more influential people in the media to speak out publicly, rather than being afraid to be controversial. Tim is right, the issue at hand needs widespread public discussion.
I suspect if the American people truly considered all the implications of what has been proposed by the Fed, without wanting to diminish or gloss over the suffering of the relatives of the victims of Syed Farooq and Tashfeen Malik, much fewer than the quoted 51% would side with the FBI in the San Bernardino case.
Perhaps your mirror is broken
Seven years of bad luck!
Could that "mirror" Hillary's first seven years as POTUS? Hope not.
You got me there. lol
Sure sounds to me (based on my limited capacity to understand the English language) like there could have been other options, but once it went public those options were taken off the table.
First, that is not what the FBI asked for, they asked for Apple to write a signed version of iOS that eliminates the defenses against brute force attacks so that they, the FBI, can attack it. This is the definition of a backdoor and it would work on anyone's phone. Do you think the FBI is going do as they are asked and destroy the OS image if Apple asks super duper nicely.
It seems like the issue is that people are naive to think that they can solve this "one issue" and then it goes away. They don't understand that once the code is written, it can easily be reverse-engineered and iOS is forever compromised.
But the reporting you are reading is all wrong and the thing they are asking for is a new iOS with a back door. There is no question or dispute around this.
If you think the FBI not being able to break into the phone a dead terrorist, who destroyed all his other electronics, didn't bother to destroy is going to lead to Sharia law in the US, we all have much bigger problems. However, allowing the government to force companies to do their work for them pushed us much closer to a state like Saudi Arabia than anything terrorists have ever done.
I think that's part of the problem. The other part is that if Apple compiles this once, it's going to be hard not to comply with other requests. I think what he said about Congress enacting a law makes a lot of sense. Let our legislature come up with a narrowly defined law where compliance is mandatory. Orders like these from the FBI just come across as tyrannical.
You got it. I admire his declaration on individuals' privacy, but who is giving him these oncological metaphors, Dr. Dre?
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Before it was just about owning the very best products, and now Cook makes me proud to own an Apple device.
I'm not referring to the privacy of the accused.
I'm referring to the privacy of everyone else that may be jeopardized as a result of the creation of this backdoor.
Me too. But privacy isn't central to this case. It's just the subtext.
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I disagree with it being compared to cancer. Cancer kills people, destroys lives, tears apart families and can leave the host impaired for life. A phone and software isn't on the same level.
I see your point, but analogies are never exactly the same on both sides. Otherwise they would be equal, not analogous.
FWIW, a loss of privacy can have all of the consequences that you listed.
If you only look at it from the confines of the case itself you are right.
What I'm talking about is the repercussions of creating the software pursuant to the order.
Tim in the interview clearly stated if they were able to extract the data without jeopardizing the data anyone else they would do it.
Why is the FBI the real terrorist?
What were the San Bernadino shooters that they are investigating?
Happy Apple customers who knew their terror plan information would be safe on an iGizmo?
Wooooooooooo!
That's magical.
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Why doesn't the FBI assemble the worlds best hackers, pay for it and crack it themselves?
Start with the participants in the official hacker meetings.
Red Hat, Back Hat , Grey Hat etc.etc.
Start with the participants in the official hacker meetings.
Red Hat, Back Hat , Grey Hat etc.etc.
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A similar comments thread on another site had some bigot making a thinly veiled reference to the fact that Tim Cook doesn't share the same definition of 'family values'!!!