“There’s a war going on,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “You’re part of it and, like it or not, you’re going to have to take sides.”
“What am I talking about? I’m talking about global government in its creeping attack on encryption, because the governments are calling this wrong. They are using arguments of national security to advance an agenda that ultimately leaves us all less secure,” Evans writes. “They say they want Apple to create a way to break into a criminal’s iPhone.”
“If Apple is forced to comply with this demand, then every other tech firm will be bought into line. Apple is only a poster child in this exchange,” Evans writes. “In the long-term, this attack on encryption will make us all more insecure and could have incredibly drastic impacts on the way we live, on our basic freedoms… What is being asked for here will do little to make us safer, and everything to make us more insecure. I urge a different course.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As was often the case, Benjamin Franklin said it best:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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