[Cryptography] Apple 3rd Party dilemma

[Henry Baker]

Apple got themselves into this mess, because Apple wants to control the customer's phone.

If Apple gave up the ability to update the customer's phone w/o the customer's explicit consent, then they'd be out of this mess.

(Note that MSFT's Win10 shenanigans make MSFT a much easier target for DOJ/FBI.)

The elephant in the room is the "Third Party Doctrine", which basically provides the govt "most favored nation status": if you as a customer provide your data to *any* third party, then the govt will claim access, as well.  (I believe that this is the modern version of the old "Lord of the Manor" privilege, which allowed the Lord of the Manor access to any maid in his territory who wishes to marry; for this reason, I suggest that the 3rd Party Doctrine be renamed the "Government Rape Doctrine", which might help to speed its demise.)

Either the Supremes have to kill the 3rd party doctrine, or the data has to remain strongly encrypted in such a way that no 3rd party can gain access.  (Homomorphic encryption, anyone?)
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Doesn't anyone else think that the "TPM" ("Trusted Platform Module") is completely insane, since it doesn't trust the computer's own owner?

Computer & phone customers have to DEMAND that they OWN their own devices.

If this means that devices occasionally commit suicide ("apoptosis") in order to protect the user's information, then so be it.  The good news is that IoT chips are getting really cheap.