Well as you said, the money is what counts and yes the US government is a big customer so you know what walks and money talks.
As for my paranoia, it’s real but I think it’s also warranted. There’s to much real history, not conspiracy theory but real unclassified, public history we can agree on that demonstrates you can’t trust government as far as you can throw it. The rest of your message is written far better than I could. Excellent points and well stated as always. > On Mar 30, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well before you go galloping off to Blackberry, check this out: > http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/12/the-encryption-debate-a-way-forward/ > > The US government is quite the customer, I understand. Nothing personal, > bro. But the money is more important. :) > > Still, he went rather quiet when the case first went public and the demand > for Apple’s assistance (in breaking its own code) was made. He didn’t even > back the cryptographers and the libertarians. Of course in some ways he’s > right: it is rather a shame that you fear your government quite as you do. > You have every reason to, but it’s still a shame. Properly speaking, the > innocent should always prevail over the guilty, and you should have nothing > to fear from them. But in a world of corruption and ineptitude, seems we > must have cryptography, and treat even them as the enemy. > > And yeah, I agree the government—any government—is a powerful adversary. But > crypto is still all that we have, realistically. It’s nasty, dangerous, and > amazingly effective. The mathematicians working for the world’s governments > may very well know something everybody else doesn’t, but it’s the world’s > publicly-vetted cryptography that’s getting selected for use in government > applications. If there are any secrets to cracking the code, then it’s > taking an unusually long time for the world’s best cryptographers to notice. > It’s far more likely that, as Snowden revealed, the problems with crypto are > the broken implementations, rather than the actual standards and algorithms > themselves. > > IMO, but Apple shouldn’t have fought the battle without first making sure > they could legitimately claim to be actually providing a useful level of > security, as that seems like quite an important criterion for your CEO to be > claiming it as truth. Maybe the FBI got lucky and there was a way in through > a human or implementation flaw, or maybe they got in by brute-forcing a four- > or six- digit PIN. Maybe they weren’t successful at all; some reports say > they simply extracted (but didn’t decrypt) the data. Until the details come > out, we’ll never know and Apple’s reputation will always be suspect. > Ironically, if they had surrendered in this one case they could have had this > situation under their thumbs, and any improvements they made would be clear. > As it now stands, we have no idea what the risk is, and I really can’t > imagine how that could possibly be good for business. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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