Yass Queen Apple fight the power

In other words: "I never read the message"

But he's a terrorist though

It doesn't matter who it is. The situation is this: Apple cannot provide anyone with an encryption key because Apple does not have one, because having one would defeat the purpose encryption. The US government wants Apple to make software that they can install on the terrorist's device that allows them to bypass the self-destruct function after ten failed passcode attempts. In order to install software on a locked iOS device, Apple needs to bypass the passcode and device encryption, which they cannot do.

It would take Apple's computers 5 years to decode a single character in any given iOS passcode, and 3 years per character if they use a supercomputer. A 4 character passcode would require 12 YEARS of brute-force deciphering with a supercomputer, and a 12 character passcode would require 36 YEARS. The government cannot legally force Apple to do this.

This is in no way comparable to that. A customer service agent gave out Jennifer Lawrence's personal information over the phone because they were tricked by a hacker who called. Apple then made it impossible for anyone to get your password other than you if you don't remember it via email.

So if a hacker has access to your email they can change your iCloud accounts around so they can get in that way. A backdoor means the government can go on your phone without you even knowing about it to get whatever information it wants to for any reason.

We have seen the government already tries to get this information without the proper approvals from the court. These same backdoors can be then used by hackers for nefarious purposes. The government is relaxed with information security in general. Why would we expect them to be any different with millions of users information? Recall that various government agencies have been themselves the target of hacks.

Apple decided after iOS 7 that they were no longer going to be in the business of backdoors and information request from government agencies or anyone else and made their system such that they can't even accommodate such requests from ANYONE including the owner of the device.

That's all cute, fine and dandy but then people should stop claiming that they're "doing it for the greater good" and "for the safety of their customers". And talking about how it "sets a bad precedent for the future of our security".

I've seen so many people using this story to set Apple up as some champion of our rights to privacy and security by protecting the rights of this disgusting murderous terrorist. At the end of the day, Apple sells our private information to ad agencies just like all the other major tech companies. If they can't do it because of physical/technical limitations, then that's a completely different thing, but that's not the narrative that this story has been following.

The US government has been using terrorism to trample over our rights to privacy since 9/11 *well way before that but y'know now they daf if we know about it* I'm glad apple said nope to their asses.

You might want to read your TOS document for the types of information Apple has access too on your device. Clearly this information alone isn't enough for the federal government to make use of.

Protect the customers!


And they're not defending terrorists, they're defending the customers.
If this technology existed, anyone could steal it, sell it, and you'll have a whole new wave of hacking even more vicious than what we have now.

I'm glad they are sticking up to our right to have privacy.

Smart move on their part to publicly announce this, probably raise sales a bit.

I feel like the government already has tons of access to everyone so whats one more thing going to hurt honestly. However they already do a good job of stopping the attacks so its clearly not just about terrorism.

Slay Apple!

You go apple,

I'm in favor of this. You don't tread hundreds of millions of people like criminals because there are a few thousand people out there who do bad things.