Apple opposes gov order to unlock iPhone

[Benton]

(02-18-2016, 04:10 PM)Au165 Wrote: The worry is this will start a push towards mandating back doors. Once a back door is there then it starts creeping into proactive surveillance type things under patriot act type legislation. I am normally not a beware big brother type person, but this is a slow creep towards a place where the government will be able to get any info they want whenever they want. What we found out from the Snowden issue was through the NSA's secret courts they were able to basically get anything they wanted. Things like encryption are for combating those types of issues, but once a precedent is set it's hard to go backwards.

I've said before, I disagree with mandating they build in back doors, or mandating developers develop ways to make their product more user-friendly to government agencies.

But if the ability is already there — even if Apple isn't public about it, which is what sounds like what's going on — then, there's no mandate. It's something that already exists.