Your right, there doesn't seem to be a middle ground, once their in, there in. Every device is open & just how much would it take to get a government employee to pass this on to an outside source, 1 million 7, 10? There will be a price.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02/20/2016 12:35 PM, John Robinson wrote: >> Prevention is impossible, be it from a knife, ax, truckload of fertilizer, >> etc. etc. but in the event of a known perpetrator then let Apple, Google, >> whomever, have the devise and do the work privately within their own shop, >> giving authorities what they need for this case…that seems right, but to >> put us all out there for the globe to become our bed partners, not my cup of >> tea. > > John, > > I have trouble with this because the existence of such a tool will be enough > to force Apple to use it. Any law enforcement agency anywhere in the world > can then call on Apple to use its tool, based on local law. Google and > Samsung must also be in their sights. > > If Apple can be forced to do this for the iPhone, then it won't be long until > this is the precedent to force open laptops encrypted by FileVault or > BitLocker or PGPDisk or any of the many other laptop encryption programs. > > How long will it be until these back doors leak? > > Will every security company be forced to compromise its product as it's being > written? > > Strong encryption is just mathematics. The perfume is out of the bottle. It > can be programmed by thousands of people all over the world. If it becomes > impossible for U.S. companies to write true security software, then it will > be written and sold by non-U.S. companies. > > L^2 > > PS/ Back in 1990, it was illegal to export strong encryption programs from > the United States. The government classified such programs as munitions. Even > then, I thought this was stupid. The algorithms are so simple, I had > purchased a T-shirt with a strong encryption algorithm implemented as a > 10-line Pascal program on its back. I wore it through a bunch of foreign > airports to conferences in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, thereby > becoming an international arms merchant. Of course, there were dozens of > mathematicians at those conferences who could have written the Pascal > program. In fact, this particular T-shirt came from Israel and was sold at > many American mathematical conferences.
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