Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
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Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
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Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#2I do not understand why Bill Gates would take a contrary position to Silicon Valley / tech community on this issue. Any insight into why he is taking this stance?
What I have found even more confusing is why the FBI hasn't asked the NSA for help. The NSA's thousands of skilled hackers simply can't break into an old iPhone?
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#3I do not understand why Bill Gates would take a contrary position to Silicon Valley / tech community on this issue. Any insight into why he is taking this stance? What I have found even more confusing is why the FBI hasn't asked the NSA for help. The NSA's thousands of skilled hackers simply can't break into an old iPhone?
Because caving to the Feds is basically Microsoft standard policy, and always has been?
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#4I do not understand why Bill Gates would take a contrary position to Silicon Valley / tech community on this issue. Any insight into why he is taking this stance? What I have found even more confusing is why the FBI hasn't asked the NSA for help. The NSA's thousands of skilled hackers simply can't break into an old iPhone?
Because the US government is Microsoft's biggest customer by a country mile.
Hand that feeds you and all that.
The FBI already have the info they need, don't need nsa's help, this is purely about setting a precedent.
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#5In Tim Cook's words, from his latest letter to the employees:
"Some advocates of the government’s order want us to roll back data protections to iOS 7, which we released in September 2013. Starting with iOS 8, we began encrypting data in a way that not even the iPhone itself can read without the user’s passcode, so if it is lost or stolen, our personal data, conversations, financial and health information are far more secure. We all know that turning back the clock on that progress would be a terrible idea."
The last released non-beta iOS is 9.2.
Bill Gates still owns some 13 billions in Microsoft stocks.
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#6Does he feel that Apple should also unlock the 12 other phones the Justice Department is reportedly also filing court orders for?
http://gizmodo.com/justice-department-forcing-apple-to-unloc... The Justice Department is pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country...
And what about when authorities in the UK also have cases where they "need" phones to be unlocked? And how about China? And every other government in the world that may want to have phones unlocked?
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#7>"It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records,” he said. “Let’s say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said ‘don’t make me cut this ribbon because you’ll make me cut it many times’."
Seriously? It's absolutely different (not to mention his ribbon analogy makes no sense at all). I see all of this more a question of "can Americans actually have anything remain private on a commercial device?". I don't want anyone but me to have unfettered access to my data, regardless of if it's phone records, bank info, or my phone's contents.
Here's hoping that the iPhone 7 has a secure enclave that either 1.) deletes keys on firmware flash, or 2.) doesn't allow it to be upgraded ever.
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#8I do not understand why Bill Gates would take a contrary position to Silicon Valley / tech community on this issue. Any insight into why he is taking this stance? What I have found even more confusing is why the FBI hasn't asked the NSA for help. The NSA's thousands of skilled hackers simply can't break into an old iPhone?
That's not how the NSA operates. The NSA is not a tech support hotline for the Feds. The NSA has its own mission set which its resources go towards. If it doesn't fall within that mission set, then NSA don't care. This iPhone doesn't fall within that mission set.
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#9So why is Microsoft fighting us.gov regarding access to data stored in another country? Isn't that, to the layman, just another variety of ribbon-wrapped box. Gates should know that, just like extra-jurisdictional data retrieval, signed malware data retrieval is dangerous, bad business and awful precedent. He must publicly set the record straight for his company's stance to have any credibility.
Re: Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone
#10I disagree with Gates on this one, I think in the US that has common law legal systems, setting the precedent by unlocking (if possible) the iphone in question would be disastrous.