Why would I leave a key under my mat for the cops in the first place?
I mean, it’s not like there’s cases of police committing abuse and misuse, are there…?
A rare insight into Tim Cook’s mind.
We have an easy peasy solution to that.
We will just make it illegal for burglars to look under the mat.
And if they do look under the mat, we will also make it illegal fro them to take the key.
Finally we will also make it illegal for burglars to use the key.See there an absolutely bullet proof solution, so why does the tech industry continue to claim this is a bad idea?
As a politician I simply can’t understand why they are so contrary to this idea that will increase safety for everybody!!/s (just in case)
Or… you and a friend on another floor put your keys under each other’s mats. Then you both always have a way in and the chance of a burglar figuring it out is almost zero.
That’s security through obscurity, as well as shared keys.
What happens when the burglar in waiting watches someone grab the key and use it?
Or in the case of phone security, what happens when your address is printed on the key?
A better analogy is fire lock boxes, where apartment complexes have a master key stored in a box out front that can be unlocked with a master key firemen carry.
Unfortunately, that bic pen trick turned out to work on those lock boxes a decade or so ago, meaning all a burglar needed to get into ANY residence in ANY building with a fire lock box was a bic pen. In fact, a burglar could open the box, get the key, duplicate it, put it back in the box, and nobody would even know security had been compromised.
It’s a pretty good analogy for what’s being asked for here.
/s /s
Talk is cheap
Keep pretending that the NSA doesn’t already have a million backdoors in your proprietary garbage, Tim.
Considering they are sending all of your iOS activity back to themselves without encryption, to track you for ad serving, yep.
This article is based on… a random twitter post that it does not even link to? I’d like to see concrete data supporting this claim.
Whole article be like: source: trust me bro
Yeah but we saw how quickly you bowed and kissed the ring of king Trump.
That shit erodes trust.
Politicians who don’t understand technology (and some that do) will continue advocating for a break in encryption “so they can catch the bad guys.”
No, you fuck. Either it’s protected or it’s not. I’ve just been listening to the latest podcast from 404 Media (you should check them out; print and audio). One of their primary stories is about cops accessing Flock cameras to stalk their ex-partners. AUTHORITY NEEDS LIMITS.
yup, and one persons freedom fighter is another person enemy and all that.
One fascist boot-licker downvoted me. Hey fascist, no one here likes you.
Also Tim cook quote, “you’re so great Mr. Trump, we had an army man, nake you a special trophy just for you. The base is literally a gold bar that I’m illegally giving you. Isn’t that fun, you’re so great trump. Thank you trump. I love you trump. It’s such a joy to socialize with you trump”
Sightly paraphrased
I think it’s important to note that quote was from 2015.
Especially when the cops ARE the burglars in the first place.
but YOU are the one GIVING the key to cops tim.
I think you’re missing the point. Apple has famously resisted implemented back doors for the authorities.
He’s warning against leaving that metaphorical key under the mat.
resisted? the era they pretend to do it is gone.

It’s stupid but it’s not back door access to you phone
trus me bro moment.
They’re all essentially trying to manipulate Trump by playing into his narcissism. This is bad and not what I want to see, but it might not be an (intentional) act of submission.
That we know of
Doesn’t apple backdoor UK users anyway?
I don’t think they went through with it.
I remember reading a related article reclaimthenet
This same Home Office served Apple with a secret order, a Technical Capability Notice, demanding a backdoor into end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups, first for every human on the planet and later, after Washington threw a tantrum, for British users alone. Secret being the operative word, since the law gagged Apple from so much as admitting the order existed.
Apple’s answer was to rip its strongest encryption out of the UK entirely rather than build the thing, sniffing that it has “never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services,” and the fight is still grinding through the courts. That is the track record of this government, one that asks one company, in the dark, to dismantle encryption for an entire nation is not a government you hand a camera-side scanner and trust to use it gently.
If you’re Canadian, please sign this petition against Bill C-22:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
Already signed, took very little time.
Especially when the cops are the burglars.
40% of Cops
Why would you want a cop in your house?
ATAB
All Tim Apples are Bastards
A burglar doesn’t intend to fuck up your whole life and/or extinguish it. I prefer the burglar over the cop.
If you put the key under the bed, the Esptenos will diddle you and declare you a national security threat.














