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What Apple stands to gain from a backdoor? It's clear what the cost of risk is, but what is the gain?
by viktorcode 5y ago
What Apple stands to gain from a backdoor? It's clear what the cost of risk is, but what is the gain?
- PickledHotdog 5y agoJust spitballing, but market access to China and the like?
- user_7832 5y agoWhy use a backdoor if you have the frontdoor, the walls, the roof.. and the entire server? Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China - https://nyti.ms/3oAvIVH https://nyti.ms/3oAvIVH > Apple has largely ceded control to the Chinese government. Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. And the digital keys that unlock information on those computers are stored in the data centers they’re meant to secure.