[Cryptography] Govt Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes, ' Obama Say
Yui Hirasawa
yui at cock.li
Sat Mar 12 09:14:30 EST 2016
> Siding with Apple are technology companies including Amazon Inc.,
> Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and Google's parent Alphabet Inc. On
> Thursday, the government filed a memorandum in the case arguing that
> Apple would need to assign as few as six workers for as little as two
> weeks to hack into Syed Farook's phone.
These companies are siding with Apple for PR. This is also the first
time I see anyone actually call Google Alphabet.
> Apple and other tech firms have said that building backdoors into
> their encrypted products could put them at a disadvantage to foreign
> competitors.
This is what annoys me about this Apple vs. FBI thing. It has made
backdoor a buzzword that technologically illiterate keep repeating as if
it was of any relevance to the case.
> "If in fact you can't crack that at all, government can't get in, then
> everybody's walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket."
Currently only best of the criminals have this possibility. Giving it to
the general public won't make any negative difference.
> "I suspect the answer is going to come down to, how do we create a
> system that, encryption is as strong as possible, the key is secure as
> possible, and it is accessible by the smallest number of people
> possible for the subset of issues that we agree is important," he
> said.
Unfortunately the US govt is not very small.
> After fixing HealthCare.gov with the assistance of private-sector
> technology experts, "what we realized was we could potentially build a
> SWAT team, a world class tech office inside of the government, that
> was helping across agencies," Obama said. That became the U.S.
> Digital Service. ----------
Why aren't they helping now?
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