Going Dark - an unmentionable company blows law enforcement

[juan]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:32:42 +1000
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> Cause for both cautious optimism - this might result in a competitive
> market for 'full system' 'wholistic' encryption ecosystem - 
 
> 
> @pp13 at BlackHat: Reopening the "Going Dark" Debate
> https://lawfareblog.com/apple-blackhat-reopening-going-dark-debate
> 

	Sorry, that is just apple spam. 

	Apple is a bunch of psychos whose only purpose in life is to
	steal as much money as possible thanks to state-granted
	'intellectual property' monopolies.

	That means two thigs : 

	one)  they would never do anything that can hurt their partner
	in crime. Apple can't exist without the state. It would be
	crazy for them to fight the state. 


	two) since what they want is money, then they have to sell
	garbage that the 'market' wants. And the 'market' is not
	interested in security. So, it doesn't make any sense for them
	to sell stuff that allegedly protects people from the
	police(their partners anyway).





> (The author says some things which sound a bit messed up e.g. "Apple
> built the very thing that they and the privacy community have been
> saying for years is reckless, dangerous or impossible: a high-value
> encryption key secured in a vault such that the key can’t be stolen or
> misused by hackers or malicious insiders" - perhaps he's attempting to
> obfuscate things, or perhaps his own mind is naturally obfuscated.)