Is Tim Cook refusal to give in to the FBI just bullshit? Surely the Feds/NSA/CIA can do all that anyway? I always assumed that to get licencing for new hardware/software, companies had to supply law enforcement and security services with back-door keys to these products.
Is Tim Cook refusal to give in to the FBI just PR bullshit to say “Apple is still cool, man”? Surely the Feds/NSA/CIA can hack into all our phones anyway? I always assumed that to get licencing for new hardware/software, US companies had to supply law enforcement and security services with back-door keys to these products.
Seems like it was indeed all just posturing by Tim Cook, allowing him to save face and declare Apple still cool and anti-establishment.
http://time.com/4274433/fbi-iphone-apple-san-bernardino-unlocked/?xid=newsletter-brief
I know it’s a Time Magazine article, but these kinds of things are often interesting for the things they don’t say.
It would make sense that it was a marketing ploy. Edward Snowden was pretty sure that the FBI could unlock the phones anyway.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/snowden-fbi-claim-that-only-apple-can-unlock-phone-is-bullshit/
