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We came out and vocally supported Apple on our blog yesterday. The response from our customers, mostly consumers and small businesses, was overwhelming. Many lo
by mmaunder 11y ago
We came out and vocally supported Apple on our blog yesterday. The response from our customers, mostly consumers and small businesses, was overwhelming. Many long comments and passionate views.
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/02/wordfence-supports-strong-encryption/ https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/02/wordfence-supports-st...
I'd encourage every other tech company who has the ability to talk about this (in other words you don't sell to the intelligence community), to also inform your customers and take a viewpoint on this issue.
This is obviously nothing new, but we're finally at the point of inflection we've all been anticipating. If Apple caves, it will set a precedent that the government can use a law from the 1700's (and anything else they can dredge up) to force surveillance and backdoors on tech companies in the name of security. For startups alone, even if you ignore the chilling effects and impact on privacy, to simply comply could be onerous enough to hurt innovation.
- danielsiders 11y agoWe've done the same: https://flynn.io/blog/against-forced-updates https://flynn.io/blog/against-forced-updates I also urge other founders and exec teams to join in. The best chance we have of stopping this is a strong show of agreement across the community.