Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Customer Letter

The consensus is that weakening iOS security for every phone which is the Pandora's Box this request opens is very bad because hackers, unscrupulous NSA and other government types will misuse this tool once it exists.

And the only way to build such a tool is to provide a "back door" the tool uses, or to find a new back door and leave it open, whereas Apple wants to close all back doors rather than leave them open once it is known they exist.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Tony tdale@xtra.co.nz [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

The consensus is to ignore the issue of exposing a terrorist plot?

From: "David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2016 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] Customer Letter - Apple

On Feb 18, 2016, at 12:20 AM, Kris Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I like the way you think :)

~KLM
\\ "Antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists" ~Nikola Tesla //

On Feb 17, 2016, at 5:39 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> I hope Apple prevails because I believe that too much of our privacy has already been eroded.
> Pat

I just had a mental flash of a courtroom scene:

Apple's legal team asks, "How many people in this courtroom have iPhones? How many of you are in favor of having a back-door built into your iPhone that any decent hacker could access?"

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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com

Yes, but, unfortunately, that one's easy for them to rebut: "We're the good guys." That will convince the crowd.

The crowd need to be educated. It won't be easy, because "common sense" says this is Apple's patriotic duty. Time for some good advertising - spots and print ads explaining intelligently but simply why it's a very bad idea.

Who might do that? Not universities, because they're on the government's payroll. Gutsy as this act was, I doubt Apple - a public company - could do it alone.