LurkerJ said:
"Fear for the future, without any clear example of why you're afraid now, isn't an argument. There's a clearl history of Apple having the ability to access these phones, when ordered to do so under specific sets of circumstances. They never allowed these keys to reach the public. To say 'well maybe someday in the future someone will' is absurd. Someday in the future, every piece of technology or code written, will be hacked...so I guess we should just stop allowing advancements in technology?" This was odd to read. I don't get it. What is absurd about pushing the security of their software further? Do they have to wait until it's under attack before they do so? Should have they stopped making advancements in securing their technology because "it was good enough?" |
For me personally, it seems illogical to think anything will remain hack proof (unless we're talking Quantum computing, which by all laws of quantum physics as I understand them, would make it unbreakable). Our current system, will always be breachable, as everything that's ever been made has suffered from this given enough time and access.
There's nothing absurd about pushing software security, and as far as I've seen, neither the FBI or the court warrant suggests that the code that Apple creates would be handed out with every Iphone purchase, or put in gumball machines for 25c a pop. As was the case prior to Apple's update to their software in 2014, Apple would retain the 'keys' so to speak, and nobody would ever touch them unless under a very specific and narrow set of circumstances, such as this. Until you can actually show how such a thing is bad now, when it was perfectly fine in the past...I simply don't understand your argument. Unless Apple's purposefully obstructing Justice, in which case, I'm more than happy to see the FBI unload on them.
