> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:35 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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, Absolutely not, John. No way. Uh uh. Nope. You and I do NOT agree on this! And the Universe is on my side! 1. It’s still the same issue. As was mentioned the other day, what happens when an Apple employee with a few extra gambling debts to retire decides that he needs to leave the country real quick and knows how to monetize his secret knowledge? Or that person has his family kidnapped by Russian hackers that want the insider information on how to do it? There is no way to keep that secret hidden. Just the knowledge that such a technique exists will have every hacker in the world working their hardest to replicate it. B. Also, where does it stop? Apple loses the moral high ground before every other country in the world if they do this. They will have to open up “cracking centers" all over the world to meet the demand of every local police department in every nook and cranny of this VERY diverse world of ours. Oh, and unintended consequences: that would create an exponential increase in the number of leak vectors. III. And who is to say that Apple is a better steward of said knowledge than a government agency? They're still people, John-Boy. And that’s a scary thought. Just say no. Nopediddy-nope-nope-nope! For once, Tim Cook is my hero. Jonathan -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 2/23/16 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
