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Sounds extremely straight forward and sincere(many bad decisions are also taken with utmost sincerity) but I would think it would be a bad idea to provide FBI t

Sounds extremely straight forward and sincere(many bad decisions are also taken with utmost sincerity) but I would think it would be a bad idea to provide FBI this ability. For one, it is forever weakening the security and privacy of your iphone. Bad guys who want to evade the policy officers will do it anyway with encryption systems/software available from any of the non US territories. Considering that FBI can get significant meta data from telecom providers(who called whom etc), I think this requirement that FBI has gives little gain in security as the upside and comes with a significant downside[ huge loss in privacy].

ikeboy 11y ago
http://bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-17/the-apple-fight-isn-t-about-encryption http://bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-17/the-apple-fight... argues and I agree that the loss of freedom is precisely when you can't install your own software onto a phone in your possession.
- 05 11y ago
  The article author is incompetent, it's all about private keys, not 'source code'. Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert.
  - ikeboy 11y ago
    >Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert. Where does the article imply it does? It states correctly that the FBI would have easily hacked it had it been an android. edit: I'm assuming you're going from this line: >Although user content is encrypted on Android devices, too, Android is open-source software. Theoretically, the government can produce its own version of the system that would make it possible to hack the encryption. This is poorly worded, as is the line about how all encryption can be hacked, but he gets the point about how Android would have been vulnerable. I think some of that can be chalked down to writing for the public and not a technical audience.

ikeboy 11y ago

http://bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-17/the-apple-fight-isn-t-about-encryption http://bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-17/the-apple-fight... argues and I agree that the loss of freedom is precisely when you can't install your own software onto a phone in your possession.

05 11y ago
The article author is incompetent, it's all about private keys, not 'source code'. Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  >Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert. Where does the article imply it does? It states correctly that the FBI would have easily hacked it had it been an android. edit: I'm assuming you're going from this line: >Although user content is encrypted on Android devices, too, Android is open-source software. Theoretically, the government can produce its own version of the system that would make it possible to hack the encryption. This is poorly worded, as is the line about how all encryption can be hacked, but he gets the point about how Android would have been vulnerable. I think some of that can be chalked down to writing for the public and not a technical audience.