Correction Please!
Undo Apple Encryption?
Item: In an interview with the Financial Times on February 23, 2016, Microsoft Founder Bill Gates weighed in on Apple’s battle with the U.S. government over the FBI’s demands that the tech giant help the agency defeat the encryption of an iPhone 5C that was used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Gates said Apple CEO Tim Cook should cooperate with the FBI and provide the backdoor it seeks because, “This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case.” Gates went on to accuse Microsoft’s biggest rival of making much ado about nothing. The article quotes Gates as saying:
It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records. Let’s say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said, “Don’t make me cut this ribbon because you’ll make me cut it many times.”
The article includes a quote from FBI director James Comey in support of forcing Apple to provide a backdoor to the iOS platform. Comey claims, “We don’t want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land,” and calls the FBI’s demands “quite narrow.”
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