I saw this, Apple is resisting a judges order to help law enforcement to crack the encryption on the phones of the terrorist couple of San Bernadino. There are a couple of other cases in the news right now of people who have died with critical information on their smart phones that they're families can't get access to. The companies are refusing to open the phones or whatever because of the privacy of a dead person.
I can't agree with the computer companies on this. Like a doctor-patient privilege, it doesn't survive death. If someone is dead then the next of kin (or in this case law enforcement) should be able to get assistance to open the phone. Different story if you have someone on trial who has not been convicted yet. They still have privacy rights but then we get back to the ticking bomb scenario. Could survivors (or the federal government) hold a company responsible for failing to reveal pertinent information?
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
The difference is, the other billion people that have IPhones are not dead.
This cat and Mose game that the Tech Companies are playing with the Government will probably not end well for Apple. An order from a Federal Judge is, (or used to be), a serious matter. It's not much different tha a Reporter refusing to give up a source that is critical in a legal proceeding.
That being said, it is difficult to believe that with all of it's resources, the Federal Government can't break into those phones, or find someone that can. Hell, just offer $1,000,000 dollars to any hacker who can figure it out.
They seem to be able to get at anything else.