Yup, it's a complicated world! Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 20, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
