Q: What’s the difference between USA and USB?
A: One connects to all of your devices and accesses the data, the other is a hardware standard.
If I had their resources My company would not be falling under U.S. jurisdiction. And all my customers would know why.
Gee, maybe the government needs to start focusing on keeping the terrorists out of the country in the first place.
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I have to admit that this FBI / Apple thing has me a little confused. I always heard cases where smart phones were confiscated and used against typical people at traffic stops, accidents, etc.... Our computers can be confiscated and used against us. What is causing this debate? Is it simple password protection of the phone causing this? If someone understands, please let me know. Mainly, let me know what I need to protect my phone and self in the event I have an issue.
It has to be more than a password, it will need to be a very large key. Password managers like 1Password have a feature to back-up data to the cloud. Imagine what happens if your local computer hard drive crashes, and so you lose your local 1Password copy, and along with it your local copy of your iCloud key, and now can’t get to the back-up in iCloud to restore the 1Password DB.
I’m envisioning something similar to what happenened internal to Microsoft when they forced employees to use BitLocker to encrypt their work machine hard drives. User’s are forced to back-up the recovery key during set-up. However, countless numbers of them don’t have the key if it’s needed later. So MS IT implemented a system that backs the key up to a remote service. MS IT support can give the user access to this to retrieve their key, but the user stil has to do it himself by logging into a website with his domain credentials. Before that service, it was a veritable circus of lost hard drive contents and angry users.
So I think giving the user an option is great, but people who aren’t prepared and able to have a good offsite backup of their key should be cautious lest they lose all the benefits of backing up important data to the cloud. I would recommend putting it on a USB key and storing that in a safe deposit box.
BTW, Backblaze, who is who I use for cloud backup offered this option to their users a couple of years ago. Most people are not using it, but it’s a nice option to reduce concerns about Backblaze being hacked.
That is the whole reason I own an apple phone...
The government can go diddle themselves somewhere else other than in my private business...
Allow me to introduce to you the Jefferson Disk, invented by the man who largely wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, also known as having the 3rd president of our fair republic.
This particular cypher was good enough that a variation of it was used as late as 1942 by the U.S military.
What appears to be new, however is demands by the government that they always have access to break said encryption when employed by lowly citizens. Personally, I find it hard to believe that Mr. Jefferson would have supported that point of view.
Good. Enough tyranny. The State wants something? Get a warrant.
Don’t lecture me about “terrorism,” or “security.” All propaganda to promote tyranny. Tim Cook is an American hero for doing this.
As I continually tell everyone, if you put data on the Cloud it is no longer yours. Live with it.
We’ll at least they’re doing lip service to their 80’s half-time video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
Wow, so maybe the USA will ban IPhones.