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What if Apple was in the business of safes and built a really strong to crack safe. There would be 10 attempts to open it or all the content would catch on fire
by zimbatm 11y ago
What if Apple was in the business of safes and built a really strong to crack safe. There would be 10 attempts to open it or all the content would catch on fire.
Is it unheard of that the government would seek the help of that kind of company in similar cases ?
The argument that the newly-developed technique could be stolen by unwanted adversaries is the same. In both cases the government has to get hold of the physical object to crack the (digital) safe.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoNo safe contains as much value to a person as a phone does. A phone contains everything. Everything. All your texts, all your browsing data, all your apps and the things you record in them, safe from the world behind a passcode. To apply your argument, your safe is a Narnia portal that brings you access to every facet of someone's life, all to track down the contents that fit on a few pieces of paper. Equating smartphones with physical safes is ridiculous.
- zimbatm 11y agoCertainly that's an issue with the scope of the warrant. Similarly to the judge only giving access to the car or the living room. I agree that smartphones are blurring the distinction between the brain and the physical world and the day where devices exist to read our thoughts we will have to make a decision if that is off-limit or not.
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- khedoros 11y agoEvery safe would have a replaceable locking/fire-setting mechanism with a part, machined to uniquely fit that particular safe, and stamped with the builder's guarantee of security. The important points are these: the mechanism-replacement machine wouldn't be limited to that one safe, and the technician won't install it unless Apple Safes said that it had the same level of security after the alteration. This isn't cracking one safe; it's developing (easily redistributable) instructions for cracking all the safes of that model and marking the modified mechanisms as unmodified, against their will.