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Apple Employees, If Ordered To Unlock iPhone, Might Quit (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an NYTimes article: Apple employees are already discussing what they will do if ordered to help law enforcement authorities. Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created, according to more than a half-dozen current and former Apple employees. [...] The employees' concerns also provide insight into a company culture that despite the trappings of Silicon Valley wealth still views the world through the decades-old, anti-establishment prism of its co-founders Steven P. Jobs and Steve Wozniak. [...] The fear of losing a paycheck may not have much of an impact on security engineers whose skills are in high demand. Indeed, hiring them could be a badge of honor among other tech companies that share Apple's skepticism of the government's intentions.
1. Ordered to not bow to the Steve Jobs statue every day.
2. The cafeteria/yoga center runs out of fair-trade artisanal non-GMO lemon grass smoothies.
3. Apple actually starts fixing bugs in OS X instead of focusing on SHINY in iOS.
4. Siri tells them that their auras are not in tune with the universal energy of orange.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Can't the FBI use the same encryption breaking schemes they use on SSL to brute force the certificate used to place the original firmware, then hire someone from Algeria for $20/hour to put a new firmware on it? What about that memory heat map hack where they can read software right off the storage, can't they use that to decrypt the current firmware? Are all they advertising is distrust in government? Who is profiting off of the distrust in our own government?
You're really pushing Betteridge's Law this morning.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I thought affirming that I'd rather quit than attend daily scrum meetings was noble and principled. Damn.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Apple can easily solve this problem by forming an independent subsidiary in Germany which will maintain keys and security settings, which is then contracted into the next iOS upgrade. The current keys should be erased at the next upgrade. Then, the German government can approve FBI warrants for the use of the keys.
For real fun, Apple should announce that the iCloud servers for U.S. Government workers are moving to China, starting with all members of congress.
Except that surrenders the legal precedent whereby law enforcement can demand you write a program to compromise your product's security.
I prefer the current system where computer manufacturers install crapware without being compelled to do so.