| mornelithe said: A danger they are already in, by being engineers at Apple. They could just as easily be whisked away by one of these nefarious foreign Governments/Criminal Organizations and be brutally tortured in perpetuity to do whatever the hell said individuals want. You also fail to explain how these engineers escaped the clear and present danger to their lives, over the past decade+ that Apple's phones have had market dominance. Especially given that the world over has known they have the capacity to breach said devices, up until they altered the software in 2014. I liken this to the GoP in the US, altering voting laws to prevent voter fraud, when the volume of voter fraud is so small it couldn't effect the outcome of a village election, let alone a nationwide election. Likewise here, it's quite clear Apple only did this to try and absolve themselves from any responsibility in assisting the Government in criminal cases where an absurdly narrow focus warrants access (which, frankly, I don't have words for how disgusting that is). |
No it's not a danger that they currently face, as they do not possess the knowledge yet. What's being asked to be done isn't easy. The FBI has given vague descriptions of how they think it'll work, but offer no real implementation.
Apple did it to protect their brand following the NSA fallout. They didn't do it to absolve themselves responsibility, that's a mad claim, if anything the legal burden on them has been made harder through this system. Apple increased data security around the same time that all tech companies did, because data security has been splashed across the international media, and it had serious implications on companies' bottom lines.
