{"id":5514,"date":"2016-02-17T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2016-02-17T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:17:45","slug":"linked-tim-cook-on-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/linked-tim-cook-on-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Tim Cook on Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/customer-letter\/\">via Apple.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers \u2014 including tens of millions of American citizens \u2014 from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make our users less safe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack. For years, cryptologists and national security experts have been warning against weakening encryption. Doing so would hurt only the well-meaning and law-abiding citizens who rely on companies like Apple to protect their data. Criminals and bad actors will still encrypt, using tools that are readily available to them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We all saw this coming. This moment when someone would have to round up the public and shed light on what\u2019s going on. As my remark<a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/linked-fbi-director-james-comey-on-encryption\/\"> in a linked piece just 2 weeks<\/a> ago stated, &#8220;This is going to become a huge issue in 2016. I don\u2019t foresee the FBI letting up on this topic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016 will be the year that the last holdouts of our personal data roll-over or fight. Apple has the resources to fight and I\u2019ve never been more happy to be an Apple customer. They\u2019re fighting to protect all of the safe-guards I have in place to keep my data outside of others\u2019 hands. it\u2019s good to know that Touch ID, long passwords, pre-shared keys, 2048 bit encryption and using technologies like FileVault will continue to pay off.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Apple.com: The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T01:58:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"b0b1aa73-3ca3-4c2f-b1d1-0f4027b361e5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T01:58:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsLGqczyjTC-x0Q9AJ7Nh5Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1qW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5335,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/linked-fbi-director-james-comey-on-encryption\/","url_meta":{"origin":5514,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;FBI Director James Comey on Encryption&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via C-Span: \u201c[Encryption]\u2026it\u2019s not a technical issue\u2026there are plenty of companies today that provide secure services to their customers and still comply to court orders. There are plenty of folks who make good phones and are able to unlock them in response to your orders. In fact the makers of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5061,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/linked-apple-ios-9-security-privacy-features\/","url_meta":{"origin":5514,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple iOS 9: Security &#038; Privacy Features&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: During the WWC Keynote, Craig Federighi has made it really clear that Apple \u201cseriously don\u2019t want to know [your personal information]\u201d. This has been a theme in Apple\u2019s statements, a good differentiator from Android, that sucks more and more user\u2019s data directly to Google servers. 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