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I wonder if Apple would finance their legal fees if they resisted, or would that be considered some sort of encouragement? It might very well help public appea
by marricks 11y ago
I wonder if Apple would finance their legal fees if they resisted, or would that be considered some sort of encouragement?
It might very well help public appeal if there was a person resisting the government compared to a large corporation.
Then again, if they get to the point of ordering Apple to break their security seems like they already lost the case at that point.
- TillE 11y agoWhat legal fees? It's Apple Inc which bears responsibility in this case, not individual employees. As the article suggests: > if the engineers refused to write the code, rather than outright quit, “then I think that the court would be much more likely to find Apple in contempt,”
- zippergz 11y ago> It might very well help public appeal if there was a person resisting the government compared to a large corporation. I was thinking that too, but then I reflected on the anti-Apple opinions I've seen in this case (mostly from a small subset of my Facebook friends). My fear is that it would actually do the opposite - it would give a face to the "spoiled" and "liberal nutjob" Silicon Valley nerds who "want to help terrorists." I hope I'm wrong...
- jonesb6 11y agoFor example if the engineer in question was an unattractive male, perhaps also a minority, someone with weird hobbies etc.