Tim Cook Demands That the White House Defend Encryption

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16 points·ghosh··9 comments

This is the better link, rather than the aggregated stories link above. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/12/apples-tim-cook-lashes-o...

It says in part: The White House should come out and say “no backdoors,” Cook said.

Umm, OK. But what about no frontdoors, i.e. mandatory key escrow?

In my eyes, Tim Cook has no credibility or rights to speak on civic matters until AAPL stops dodging taxes.

If I'm not mistaken your handle jgalt212 is a reference to John Galt from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

If Apple hatred is so strong that it makes Objectivists consider the obligation to pay taxes to be of crucial importance beyond a CEO's right to run their corporation as they see fit ... wow

Please don't be so literal, Aldous

OK good, but is he also demanding China defend encryption? U.K.? If not, why not?

He's American, right? Why would he demand that other nations do something before his own?

Because his own country hasn't made either backdoors or key escrow mandatory by law. China has.

At least for the UK, he did on November 10:

"Following the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill, which was released last week with new and extended surveillance powers for the government, Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended strong encryption. Speaking to the Telegraph, Cook reiterated that Apple believes 'very strongly in end-to-end encryption and no back doors.'"

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/10/tim-cook-talks-encryption...

This is such a silly thing. Who really believes Cook. While Apple denied it, they gave access to their systems to the government. It was in Snowdens documents.

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