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What I'm not seeing people talk about is whether the FBI should be allowed to force someone to do something unethical, immoral, and/or criminal. Generally spea

What I'm not seeing people talk about is whether the FBI should be allowed to force someone to do something unethical, immoral, and/or criminal. Generally speaking, breaking into a system that you aren't authorized to access, or creating and distributing tools that allow other people to do so, is considered 'bad'. Shouldn't Apple have every right to say no, that's wrong, I'm not going to do that? Governments have ordered people to do bad things before. How do you view those who justified their evil actions with excuses like "I was just following orders" or "just doing my job"? Is it right for our government to put people into that situation -- not just government employees or their targets/adversaries, but neutral 3rd parties? If a policeman ordered you to do something repulsively bad that would harm your family, friends, and neighbors, would you not want to be able to say no? That view doesn't require any great technical knowledge of cryptography or hardware/software/etc. Pretty much anyone could understand it. Yet no one seems to be mentioning it.

Mikho 11y ago
Actually FBI has device owner permission to access the information. There is nothing immoral here. Immoral here is Apple reaction and time wasting while there could be information to stop next terrorist attack. The situation is like owner of a device forgetting his code and ask a phone maker to help unlock the device the user owns to get info. FBI does not ask for some backdoor or unique access key. FBI does not ask to get access to unauthorized private information. FBI ask for Apple to not brick the phone and not erase all information while FBI tries different device locking codes—FBI does not want to crack the encryption. It is not about cracking encryption at all. In this particular case Apple is doing wrong and it looks like a PR show. It is not about encryption, it is not about backdoor, it is not about universal key to access private information, it is not about surveillance, it is not about privacy, and it is not about unauthorized access. It's about getting to potentially life saving information that FBI has official permission to get from the device owner.

Mikho 11y ago

Actually FBI has device owner permission to access the information. There is nothing immoral here. Immoral here is Apple reaction and time wasting while there could be information to stop next terrorist attack. The situation is like owner of a device forgetting his code and ask a phone maker to help unlock the device the user owns to get info. FBI does not ask for some backdoor or unique access key. FBI does not ask to get access to unauthorized private information. FBI ask for Apple to not brick the phone and not erase all information while FBI tries different device locking codes—FBI does not want to crack the encryption. It is not about cracking encryption at all. In this particular case Apple is doing wrong and it looks like a PR show. It is not about encryption, it is not about backdoor, it is not about universal key to access private information, it is not about surveillance, it is not about privacy, and it is not about unauthorized access. It's about getting to potentially life saving information that FBI has official permission to get from the device owner.