Friday, 18 March 2016

Apple vs FBI iPhone encryption – new perspectives


The Apple vs FBI iPhone encryption case has many facets, both technical & ethical, but, just in case you thought you finally had your head around all of the issues, here are a couple of other things to consider:

At least some Apple engineers would rather quit than develop an iPhone backdoor for the FBI
https://bgr.com/2016/03/18/iphone-hacking-apple-engineers-fbi/

Florida sheriff on Tim Cook – “I’d lock the rascal up.”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/florida-sheriff-pledges-to-arrest-ceo-tim-cook-if-apple-resisted-cooperation/
/ Florida sheriff pledges arrest CEO Tim Cook Apple resists crypto cooperation Apple wouldn't comply court order sheriff vows lock the rascal up Florida sheriff threatened arrest Apple CEO Tim Cook situation similar Apple's resistance government pressure ongoing San Bernardino terrorism investigation jurisdiction government obtained unprecedented court order All Writs Act obscure 18th-century statute compel Apple help order legal challenges Apple forced create customized iOS firmware remove passcode lockout seized iPhone 5C Apple court filings fight order drawn support cryptographers tech companies husband survivor of the attack press conference Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd detectives passcodes unlock phones Apple’s refusal create custom-firmware FBI brute-force seized iPhone 5C San Bernardino sheriff federal judge state judge above the law CEO of Apple not above the law United States locked iPhones Cook being put behind bars contempt of court order this county state attorney's office prosecute judge lock the rascal up Judd Apple comment Apple legal wrangling FBI mobile encryption Department of Justice DoJ compel Apple hand over iOS source code electronic signature run modified version of iOS iPhone Tim Cook FBI Apple Tim Cook encryption FBI’s FBI Apple’s Apple engineers FBI creating an entirely new version of iOS backdoor engineers rather quit Apple create code moral compass Apple employees law enforcement authorities balk at the work quit undermine security software current former Apple employees engineers tasked with the job FBI prevail in court Apple’s top software engineers engineer who developed software for the iPhone iPad Apple TV engineer senior quality-assurance engineer expert bug catcher testing Apple products iPod employee security architecture operating systems iPhone Mac Apple TV Apple FBI court /

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