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No employee at Apple is going to call him out on it, and everyone else can be written off as speculating. Additionally, that letter is written with very carefu
by vectorjohn 11y ago
No employee at Apple is going to call him out on it, and everyone else can be written off as speculating.
Additionally, that letter is written with very carefully fuzzy language so as to remain true-ish.
As in, Apple can't make this change and guarantee that nobody else will use it. In the same way that any software change (which they do regularly) could open up a security flaw. That doesn't mean it's likely, or any more likely than any other software update.
- studentrob 11y ago> No employee at Apple is going to call him out on it, and everyone else can be written off as speculating. I wouldn't put it past the NSA to have snapped up a former iOS developer for explicitly the purpose of breaking into iPhones. An ex employee could certainly call him out. > Additionally, that letter is written with very carefully fuzzy language so as to remain true-ish. Cook is trying to be as clear as possible to a public who doesn't understand encryption or why Apple is standing up to the FBI. That's a lot to swallow, and yes his letter is carefully worded for good reason. Given that there is a backdoor that Apple could create, it's not unthinkable that with more details, 3rd parties could figure out how to get in too.
- vectorjohn 11y ago> it's not unthinkable that with more details, 3rd parties could figure out how to get in too. This sounds like a misunderstanding. No clever third parties are going to find a way to break code signing. To exploit the security hole Apple already created would require having Apple's signing certificate so that a phone could install the code. If it wasn't for the certificate, it would be quite a bit more trivial to hack a firmware to do a malicious thing and install it on any phone.