Posted on 02/24/2016 7:49:31 AM PST by Carismar
Appleâs response to US and UK government demands for backdoors to user data has been direct, bordering on defiant. Yesterday (Feb. 16), Apple CEO Tim Cook published a letter explaining the companyâs refusal to comply with a US federal court order to help the FBI access data on a phone recovered from one of the attackers in the San Bernardino, California shootings. Apple appears to take a different tack in dealing with data security demands from China, a key growth market for the company. In January 2015, the state-run newspaper Peopleâs Daily claimed, in a tweet, that Apple had agreed to security checks by the Chinese government. This followed a piece in the Beijing News (link in Chinese) that claimed Apple acceded to audits after a meeting between Cook and Chinaâs top internet official, Lu Wei. Chinaâs State Internet Information Office would reportedly be allowed to perform âsecurity checksâ on all Apple products sold on the mainland. According to the report, this was despite Cookâs assurances that the devices didnât contain backdoors accessible by any government, including the US.
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Performing 'security checks' does not mean they have a back door access. It means checking to see if there IS a way in that could compromise security. There IS no "backdoor key."
There is no "golden key."
Apple is selling in China. China insisted that Apple customers in China data had to be stored on servers inside China's borders on Servers provided by Chinese carriers. Apple had to agree. However, China had to agree that the data was permitted to be encrypted by Apple's customers using their own passcodes before being loaded onto those servers. China's government agreed. China's news system made a stink in January about this, so Apple agreed that China could "security check" that the servers were "secure" and that the connections from the Apple devices were also secure.
Damn. I hadn't noticed I didn't have the money.
Is that anything like “do not cross the streams”?
:-)
That’s because China plays hardball like only communists can. With their own people it’s, “Do what you’re told or you’ll be taken out back and shot.” With Apple it’s, “Do it or you’ll never do business in this country again.”
Fibs can ask the Chinese for use of their apple provided key.
Yes, if your are engaged with the Stay Puft guy!
Here it may be more like bringing a fork to a knife fight?
"That's not a knife".
Hmmph, well maybe that all just depends on the definition of “engaged with”
*cough*
Apple is selling in China. China insisted that Apple customers in China data had to be stored on servers inside China's borders on Servers provided by Chinese carriers. Apple had to agree. However, China had to agree that the data was permitted to be encrypted by Apple's customers using their own passcodes before being loaded onto those servers. China's government agreed. China's news system made a stink in January about this, so Apple agreed that China could "security check" that the servers were "secure" and that the connections from the Apple devices were also secure.What SwordMaker says here is correct. Another example of how strict China is on these matters: If a US company wants to operate a data center in China, they have to go through a Chinese shell company who (on paper) owns the facilities.
It really chaps my behind to see China complaining about Trump imposing any sort of restrictions on trade with them when they have these trade restrictions for goods and services coming into China. Total hypocrites, and we are the dumb ones for letting them play us this way.
Oh my!
I walked right into that one!!!
“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”
Eewww gross!
“THAT’s a KNIFE...!”
lol
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