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The FBI v. Apple isn’t at all the way you think it is
- bediger4000 11y agoAn interesting, if improbable, theory. My own thought is that the FBI's efforts are just what they seem to be: an attempt to use an emotional event to push a legislative agenda (mandated access to all data, even encrypted data, which means backdoors, or key escrow or some such dumbness) that otherwise wouldn't pass the laugh test. I don't see why Apple is being so vehement in this, since such backdoors or key escrow or whatever is definitely a good thing for them and other big corporations. First, the burden of security is off them: they can always blame the backdoors, instead of the current situation, where they have to use intelligence, and deal with pesky hackers I mean researchers. Second, some form of immunity from liability will undoubtedly go to companies that use the mandated lame-ass key escrow encryption, or incorporate "golden key" backdoors. Third, mandated backdoors especially will do in open source operating systems, if not most open source software. If it's only legal to sell an OS that does the mandatory key escrow or contains a backdoor, then it's illegal to sell or provide or even encourage an OS that doesn't have the mandatory features. Buh bye Linux, FreeBSD and Temple OS.