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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
SAN FRANCISCO If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apples help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may run into yet another roadblock: Apples engineers.
Apple employees are already discussing what they will do if ordered to help law enforcement authorities. Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created, according to more than a half-dozen current and former Apple employees.
Among those interviewed were Apple engineers who are involved in the development of mobile products and security, as well as former security engineers and executives.
The potential resistance adds a wrinkle to a very public fight between Apple, the worlds most valuable company, and the authorities over access to an iPhone used by one of the attackers in the December mass killing in San Bernardino, Calif.
Apple employees are already discussing what they will do if ordered to help law enforcement authorities. Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created, according to more than a half-dozen current and former Apple employees.
Among those interviewed were Apple engineers who are involved in the development of mobile products and security, as well as former security engineers and executives.
The potential resistance adds a wrinkle to a very public fight between Apple, the worlds most valuable company, and the authorities over access to an iPhone used by one of the attackers in the December mass killing in San Bernardino, Calif.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/technology/apple-encryption-engineers-if-ordered-to-unlock-iphone-might-resist.html?smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
Mar 2016
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There were a lot of coders really pissed out there when during a security sweep after
LiberalArkie
Mar 2016
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TampaAnimusVortex
(785 posts)1. We can only hope...
In other news, open sourced decentralized encrypted systems explode in use...
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)3. There were a lot of coders really pissed out there when during a security sweep after
a mistake was found in the Apple encryption routine that some of the coders that had access to that code also were receiving paychecks from the D.O.D. at the same time they were employed with Apple.
Needless to say that was when Apple went full bore on making the products totally secure. They were provoked into doing it.
This week the NSA is questioning what the FBI is trying to do as they could have always brought to phone to the NSA and they have always been able to disassemble the phones and retrieve all data. Apple even referred them to the NSA. The NSA has also come out against what the FBI is wanting, the CIA is also against it.
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. Resistance is futile, prisoners will report to the grey room.