The Local France:
On Monday, French Socialist MP Yann Galut proposed an amendment to French law that – if passed – would see the US companies punished if they didn’t give French officials backdoor access to terrorists’ phones.
In France last year, there were eight phones that were inaccessible to police – all tied in some way to terror attacks, reports Le Parisien.
Totally understandable. The battle to find a balance between security and privacy will play out in a lot of places over the coming months, even years. One key argument which came up in yesterday’s hearing was the question, if Apple adds a back door, will that stop the bad guys from using encryption. And the answer, of course, is no.
This cat is already out of the bag. If you force a back door into all iPhones, the bad actors will use one of the other 600 forms of online encryption to communicate.
Time to stockpile wine and cheese.
Dave, there is no balance of “security and privacy”. That’s a bullshit phrase that LEOs have used to justify attacks on both. It’s a game they’ve played since 9/11. Read Bruce Schneier, please.
And the result being “Apple no longer sells iPhones in France”.
creating an underground market for iPhones in France … that are actually “secure”. (or not crippled by an authoritarian and unaccountable government.
Maybe if the western governments acknowledged the real (main) threat and worked to resolved the threat – we would have less need of draconian and unusual laws to “protect” the people.
No, no — it’s “security” versus security. The first “security” is the government’s unsubstantiated claim that being able to crack arbitrary iPhones will make the nation more “secure” from terrorism. (In actual fact, terrorists have known for a long time to use a second layer of encryption beyond what the phone provides.) The second security is the actual scientifically-provable security of iPhone users. That is what is at risk. Not privacy. The privacy versus security thing happens at AT&T for example when the government wants to read your text messages from the last 3 months. If somebody wants your location or the contents of your iPhone, that is primarily a security issue.
Put it this way: if somebody mugs you for your iPhone, cracks it, then uses it to clean out your bank accounts, are you going to call a lawyer and sue them for violating your privacy, or are you going to call the cops because they violated your security?
Notice that there was a point where Apple modified the iPhone so that in order to factory reset it you needed the Apple ID and the number of iPhone muggings dropped in half right away, and then dropped down further and further and further because a stolen iPhone now had no resale value because you couldn’t factory reset it. In those cases, the data was not even an issue, even though the data is worth more than the phone in most cases. But if all iPhones become crackable, then those muggings will soar to even greater heights than before, because stealing an iPhone now gives you 2 things to sell: 1) the data 2) the device. So even if we were just to talk about muggings alone, crackable iPhones will lead to millions and millions of street muggings and tens of thousands of deaths when those muggings go wrong.
So it is your money and your life that are at risk. Not your text messages and your photo library.
Well, in the U.S. it would be better to fight terrorism by regulating guns and dismantling the 99% of nukes that have absolutely no reason to exist. They are basically just laying around waiting to be lost or stolen.
Part of the impetus behind this iPhone case is a distraction from the fact that the San Bernadino shooters had automatic weapons. But it is Apple that is supposedly the bad guy, not the company that made a device for killing people wholesale.
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