Friday, February 19, 2016

Tim Cook writes open letter on data security – Mobile

After the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, in December, Apple has been involved in the investigation when Apple equipment appears to have been used by the perpetrators. In an open letter to its customers describing Apple CEO Tim Cook a little bit about the process and even the US government demanded a backdoor into Apple’s devices to investigate the case fully and also to prevent future attacks by keeping track of users’ movements.

to create such backdoor is of course not Apple want to know and they have repeatedly said that they do not have access to the information available on users’ devices, and so it should remain. Tim Cook writes, among other things, the following:

Smartphones, point by iPhone, Have Become an essential part of our lives. People use them to store an incredible Amount of personnel information, from our private conversations to our photos, our music, our notes, our calendars and contacts, our financial information and health data, even where we have been and where we are going.

All that information needs to be protected from hackers and criminals who want to access it, steal it, and use it without our knowledge or permission. Customers expect Apple and other technology companies to do everything in our power to Protect Their Personal Information, and at Apple we are deeply committed to Safeguarding Their data.

Compromising the security of our personnel information can ultimately put our staff safety at risk. That is why encryption has Become so Important to all of us.

For many years, we have used encryption to protect our customers’ personal data Because we believe it’s the only way to Their keep information safe. We have even put that data out of our own reach, Because we believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business.

The entire letter can be read here

He even goes into more precise in the case of San Bernardino, but also on how important data security is in context and why Apple will oppose backdoors in Ios and the like.

Will phones be fully encrypted and only the user or should authorities be able to view the contents for possible prevent crime? The comment field is yours.

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