Do you really think that the Government, our Government wants “any” person to be able to encrypt their data as to keep them from fulfilling their mission ?
We have had long standing encryption technologies and laws against allowing other nations from access to them.
This effort is saying that those technologies have been discovered and co-opted by both foreign governments and terrorist organizations that in order to stop them, our Government needs to access the raw data that private companies, Apple et al, have.
I understand the goal and the threat, however I have absolutely no confidence that this new protocol will not be abused for political ends.
Paranoid ?
Maybe.
Like I stated before, things happen because they CAN happen.
Ha, I placed a phone order thru apple store online. I repeat, I placed the order over the phone, giving my Corp. Card numbers verbally to get parts locally that day.
Three days later I got a call from fraud protection...it seems some enterprising person had attempted to use those numbers over a dozen times for purchases over 2k in charges directly following that transaction.I had not used the card since early Dec
Seems to me the security problem apple has is in their own house.
You're not paying attention. That raw data you are talking about that Apple gets from its customers is already encrypted to 256 bit AES standards using the user's passcode entangled with the devices internal 128 character UUID before Apple ever gets it. Even Apple cannot decipher it without the user's passcode. . . and it must be deciphered ON the device! If Apple shares that raw data with the government, I for one don't give a damn. They are welcome to try deciphering it.
If the government's Supercomputers are capable of checking 50,000 possible keys every second, it would take them 10207 years to try every possible combination. They might get lucky and hit it in a week, but it's more likely that every atom in the Universe will have decomposed to all of its sub-atomic particles and the Universe will have died from heat death than they hit the right one! By that time I think the need to know what's in your files might be moot.