Last night, the government of the United States (a federal judge in California) ruled that Apple must provide access to phone the gunman San Bernardino. With this decision they ordered Apple to unlock and decrypt the encrypted iPhone 5C camera
Apple responded with a strong letter to customers -. explain what the government decided how he assisted in the investigation so far San Bernardino, and why they are against this order. They called on the public and customers to join the discussion
The letter highlights the extremely dangerous precedent this decision would set and the implications of the government's request. "The implications of the government requirements are frightening. If the government can resort to the Act All Writs to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach anyone in the apparatus capture their data. the government could extend this violation of privacy and demand that Apple build a monitoring software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access to the microphone or a picture of your phone without your knowledge system. "
" We certainly understand why the government wants the information in question because of the horrific acts perpetrated by terrorist San Bernardino. But much more is in. If Apple is needed to build a back door to this iPhone, we all know it will not be for all single device or even just to investigate the future similar situations, "said Sunday Yokubaitis, President of Golden Frog. "Once there is a backdoor for the previous iPhone for" All Writs Act "used to link services and devices vendors will set up this and backdoors will be created force and then used. - And abused - many . We have seen times of great Oversteps government surveilling citizens in the past using forced or voluntary assistance from the private sector (Room 641a Take, for example) is simply a bad idea. - and bad policy - d require services, applications and operating system vendors to create and maintain a "key" that gives access to encrypted information stored on a user's terminal or in the cloud, because it opens the door to surveillance during scanning, and routine personal information to anyone and in fact all aspects of the daily activities of each. no government should have access. If the US government gets it, so will many others including repressive regimes and, ultimately, terrorist organizations and states that almost are themselves terrorists or supporters of terrorism. "
As company Golden Frog has always been synonymous with strong and secure encryption for everyone, and we are opposed to the idea that suppliers should or must build and maintain a mechanism that will inevitably make the insecure encryption and that surely will simply lead to abuse and the complete loss of privacy. We are with Apple, and urge everyone who cares about their private life to join them in fight against dangerous back against the government effort to require Apple and consciously create dangerous encryption and simply insecurity for the US government and all others can maintain and develop a surveillance state.
what the government wants here is no different from that of "brief Assistance" employed by the British Crown that so annoyed the founders of the United States and largely led to the revolution that led to states -United. The Declaration of Independence signers complained that King George III "has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent here swarms of new employees to harass our people and eat out their substance." King George would have liked the government wants now, but the founders of the United States increased to deny him this power and we must once again ensure that this repression does not happen again, because it will surely missing constant vigilance and zealous protection of our rights. They can not be given the power and the tool, even in circumstances like these.
What can you do?
- Join the conversation online using the hashtag #pomme. Make sure to include @goldenfrog to tell us what you think!
- Sign the petition Access Now
- Read the full letter here Apple
- Read EFF position on the issue
- More about if San Bernardino
Sources: Ars Technica, TechCrunch
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