Well before you go galloping off to Blackberry, check this out: http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/12/the-encryption-debate-a-way-forward/
The US government is quite the customer, I understand. Nothing personal, bro. But the money is more important. :) Still, he went rather quiet when the case first went public and the demand for Apple’s assistance (in breaking its own code) was made. He didn’t even back the cryptographers and the libertarians. Of course in some ways he’s right: it is rather a shame that you fear your government quite as you do. You have every reason to, but it’s still a shame. Properly speaking, the innocent should always prevail over the guilty, and you should have nothing to fear from them. But in a world of corruption and ineptitude, seems we must have cryptography, and treat even them as the enemy. And yeah, I agree the government—any government—is a powerful adversary. But crypto is still all that we have, realistically. It’s nasty, dangerous, and amazingly effective. The mathematicians working for the world’s governments may very well know something everybody else doesn’t, but it’s the world’s publicly-vetted cryptography that’s getting selected for use in government applications. If there are any secrets to cracking the code, then it’s taking an unusually long time for the world’s best cryptographers to notice. It’s far more likely that, as Snowden revealed, the problems with crypto are the broken implementations, rather than the actual standards and algorithms themselves. IMO, but Apple shouldn’t have fought the battle without first making sure they could legitimately claim to be actually providing a useful level of security, as that seems like quite an important criterion for your CEO to be claiming it as truth. Maybe the FBI got lucky and there was a way in through a human or implementation flaw, or maybe they got in by brute-forcing a four- or six- digit PIN. Maybe they weren’t successful at all; some reports say they simply extracted (but didn’t decrypt) the data. Until the details come out, we’ll never know and Apple’s reputation will always be suspect. Ironically, if they had surrendered in this one case they could have had this situation under their thumbs, and any improvements they made would be clear. As it now stands, we have no idea what the risk is, and I really can’t imagine how that could possibly be good for business. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
