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Here's why it wouldn't work: Non-US consumers, let alone companies, (which is to say, the majority of the smartphone market) have no interest in purchasing devi
by mullingitover 12y ago
Here's why it wouldn't work: Non-US consumers, let alone companies, (which is to say, the majority of the smartphone market) have no interest in purchasing devices that can be rooted by the US government.
Correction: it could work, in theory, if US companies were willing to sacrifice massive amounts of revenue for no reward.
- csandreasen 12y agoThen the device manufacturer can make an international version. The US Congress could pass a law requiring all of some certain class of devices implement something to allow law enforcement to decrypt, but that wouldn't prevent the device manufacturers from selling a different version to their international customers.
- visarga 12y agoYes, but how would we trust them if they are already selling spyware infected phones in other countries? The making of phones is going to get commoditized - everyone could make a phone in a few years, from parts and using open source software. Then we will have choices and never have to use spyware again.
- russgray 12y agoDoesn't that just mean that as a wannabe criminal I buy my iPhone from some no-extradition-treaty country, safe in the knowledge that the FBI's keys aren't on it?