My personal opinion is that end to end encryption is just that, back doors are a hole that will get breached by people with ill intent (and that can include governments). There will always be means for terrorists/criminals to roll their own encryption that doesn't have a back door, so the only people this affects is average joe's.
Tim Cook's reply to US Court order for backdoor access to iPhone
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Precisely this.
Also, people keep bringing up European attacks in this - as an example, the most recent attacks on Paris used bog standard texts to communicate. No encryption. So all this shouting about 'We could have stopped them if it wasn't for encryption' is complete BS. It's just being used as an excuse.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...al-agenda-immigration-encryption-surveillence
I see that just a few hours ago the NSA head has said encryption did play a role. But just quite what that means is pretty sketchy!
Encryption is crucial to the daily functioning of society.
I don't like it but even if they get into the iphone no guarantee that if there was anything there that it wasn't secured by a secondary cypher, etc. and once we go down this road the good people suffer - being more vulnerable to those upto no good and the bad just move onto the next way of communicating (if they care about securing their communications).
Good on Apple. The one thing that makes me prefer the iPhone over the others is (and I could be wrong but) my data is MY data, not for anyone else. I think Apple have a better grip on what other apps can access in the phone and some of the permissions on an android phone requested by apps are frankly ridiculous.
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This in my opinion would be a better idea. People who create these tools should have a department for this sort of thing. Under no circumstances should these sort of behaviour be taken lightly.
I feel Tim Cook is right though.
Problem is encryption is only as secure as the weakest link and that would be incredibly difficult if not impossible to do without making it a weakness compared to the the rest of the encryption system - otherwise I suspect Apple would have done it a long time ago.
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Yes... but it would be an internal department. Who is better to know ones systems than the creator themselves. The system is only as good as the makers make it.
Only takes one disgruntled employee or whatever to do a lot of damage in that scenario and with encryption you can build something that even the creator can't reverse engineer (without intentionally putting weaknesses in place) in any reasonable time frame so while it seems like a reasonable request to the average person its actually not so realistic.
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It's why every bit of progress has to be logged at the right level.
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Turns out it was the FBI's fault the phone locked
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/19/apple-government-changed-apple-id-password/
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/19/apple-government-changed-apple-id-password/
Not quite true. The phone would have still been passcode locked, which is what the FBI has been asking for Apple to break. But what has happened is the FBI has managed to change the password on the users Apple ID, so now the phone wont auto backup. If they had left it, and taken the phone to a known place, such as his house, plugged it in, it may have well backed up automatically and then they would have had full backups of the device available to them without the need of breaking into the phone.