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When the back door is created, it cannot be destroyed. FBI had tons of other phones they wanted to access [1]. Hacking one phone would set a precedent that Ap
by silvestrov 10y ago
When the back door is created, it cannot be destroyed. FBI had tons of other phones they wanted to access [1]. Hacking one phone would set a precedent that Apple would have to hack numerous other phones.
It is so simple to steal software, just like NSA's hacking tools were stolen.
If NSA cannot keep software safe, why can you think that Apple can? I think it's unreasonable to require Apple to have a higher level of security than NSA effectively has.
1: http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Apple-FBI-face-off-in-Congress-over-iPhone-data-6864178.php http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Apple-FBI-face-off-in-C...
- unfamiliar 10y ago> When the back door is created, it cannot be destroyed. If the "backdoor" in question is a malicious signed OS update, then it can absolutely be destroyed. There are plenty of reasons to avoid backdoors without imbuing them with mystical qualities like the inability to delete them.
- charliedevolve 10y agoSigned updates aren't secure either. Ask Microsoft.
- ethanbond 10y agoThe backdoor itself can be destroyed. The precedent of compelling a company to write an intrusion into its own software cannot be destroyed.
- a3n 10y agoIt would be like requiring a pediatrician to keep smallpox in their refrigerator.