What Cook is saying is that people should “trust” them.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/13/us-usa-cybersecurity-exclusive-idUSKBN0LG2GR20150213
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment.
The order sets the stage for new private-sector led “information sharing and analysis organizations” (ISAOs) - hubs where companies share cyber threat data with each other and with the Department of Homeland Security
The bottom line is that all Obama is really doing is not only promoting data sharing between the government and key private corporations - and one wonders just how reciprocal such sharing will be - but effectively indeminifes them from obtaining and processing such data. “Businesses are unlikely to share a lot of timely and “actionable” cyber intelligence without liability relief, said Mike Brown, a vice president with the RSA security division of EMC Corp.”
Crony capitalist spying ?
Customer data that is encrypted so that government and even Apple can’t get at it ... is not the cybersecurity threat they are talking about ... LOL ...
It’s hackers and even countries that are compromising computer systems and hacking into business and personal data that they’re talking about. Those aren’t Apple’s customers. In regards to Apple’s customers, though ... Apple wants to keep their information private.