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> Apple does not need to, nor are they being asked to, provide a backdoor that can be used elsewhere. They are, however, being asked to _create_ a backdoor tha
by rqebmm 11y ago
> Apple does not need to, nor are they being asked to, provide a backdoor that can be used elsewhere.
They are, however, being asked to _create_ a backdoor that can be used anywhere. The specific request is to remove the limits on guessing passcodes so that the FBI can brute force it.
- teacup50 11y agoThe backdoor already exists, in cryptographic terms. All they're being asked to do is to use it, entirely under their own control, for this one phone. Tim Cook is trying to pretend that commenting out a few if statements in the key derivation code path is what creates the backdoor.