Apple: Unlock software would be the equivalent of Cancer

[zebonaut]

[JonLeibowitz]

1. I didn't hear anything about cancer. Disingenuous post?

[onehandle]

3. Clearly you didn't see the interview.

'The only way to get information -- at least currently, the only way we know -- would be to write a piece of software that we view as sort of the software equivalent of cancer. We think it's bad news to write. We would never write it. We have never written it. And that is what is at stake here.'

[JDPriestly]

2. Personally, I think that the security risk of having hackable I-Phones and other electronic

gear is greater to the public than not being able to get into that I-Phone.

There are ways to figure out the social, religious and political contacts of the San Bernardino terrorists without hacking that phone.

But think, for example, of a judge who hears criminal cases and sentences people to prison. What if his I-phone can be hacked or his whereabouts traced by the families and friends of the criminals he sentences.

Think about the victims of spousal abuse? What if a clever person can hack their I-Phones and track them down.

Think of the many, many people who are the targets of sexual offenders or people who follow people around to harass them.

Once a phone can be hacked and traced easily, many innocent people can be more easily followed and endangered.