Re: [Trisquel-users] Apple emphasizes need for encryption and gives middle finger to the US government

[onpon4]

Something that didn't occur to me that my dad brought up: apparently, what's  
being demanded of Apple is to add in a backdoor which can bypass some sort of  
encryption. Apple is not saying that they can't do this, only that they don't  
want to, implying that they can. But the phone in question is not currently  
in use by its owner. In other words, for some reason, whether it's an already  
existing master key held by Apple, or whether the key is stored on the phone  
in a way that makes it possible for Apple to retrieve it, or whether the  
encryption isn't actually encryption at all, or whether it's something else,  
the encryption in question is weak against an attack performed by Apple. In  
other words, the "security" features in question are useless. This may be  
something interesting to point out to any Apple fanboys who use this as an  
example of Apple being secure or good for privacy or something like that.