“Apple CEO Tim Cook is defending his opposition to providing intelligence agencies with back doors to access encrypted information on his company’s products,” Bradford Richardson reports for The Hill.
“Cook said providing a backdoor to encryption would aid both law-enforcement agencies and the terrorists they are working to stop,” Richardson reports. “‘There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys,’ Cook said in an interview with “60 Minutes” broadcast on Sunday.”
“He said the choice between privacy and national security is a false one,” Richardson reports. “‘I don’t believe the tradeoff here is privacy versus national security,’ he said, adding that’s an ‘overly simplistic view… We’re America. We should have both.'”
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MacDailyNews Take:
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Juniper Networks hacked……..THis is exactly why you don’t want the back door installed…..
Key for good guys is key for BAD GUYS as well….!!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/
Tim Cook paraphrasing Jim Morrison of “The Doors”: 🎼”I’m (not) your backdoor man, heyyy-yehh”🎤.
Security is an illusion if the government or anyone has a ‘back door’.
I would not give a key to the back door of my home to the government; nor will I tolerate a back door to my phone that is in government control.
The Modern Police State “logic”: We must take your rights to protect your rights.
uh, I don’t think so.
I think it’s hilarious that the government first had panels discussing how phone makers should be required to make phones more secure/theft proof..then complain that phones are now too secure/theft proof..lol
Yep….not too long ago LAPD and NYPD et al were screaming about the “Apple picking” going on by the skells and thugTARDS…….
Dude, we know this already. This headline shows up all the time, like some kind of stupid mantra.
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I thought Tim Cook would like doing things through the back door.
Oh oh…the dreaded impossible to dismiss, “Win an iPhone 7” high jacking ads are back again. This time in the MDN App!
> if you put a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys
And the good guys with this power will corrupt into bad guys
Oops, sorry, they already did…….
Good for him! He should.