[kictanet] Apple vs FBI: Personal security, the new Frontier

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

On Feb 19, 2016 12:33 AM, "Lawrence Njogu" <lnjogu at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> It's a complicated issue & the stakes are too high. The issue at hand is
not if Apple can unlock the phone or not, but the fact that the FBI wants
Apple to develop a software tool to use brute force & unlock the device.

And if they do unlock, they will have theoretically created a master-key
for all the hundreds of thousands of iPhone 5S in circulation.

Apple introduced AES256 bit encryption recently. This an after market back
door to unlock the device & the FBI is using a very old law that is rarely
used to compel Apple to comply.  Both parties have compelling cases & it's
hard to tell how this will go.

The biggest challenge here is precedence, whatever that means.

> Quip: When two bulls fight, it's the grass that suffers.

Apple might be the grass here. Part of their selling proposition has been
the security they offer. Even thieves in Nairobi know stealing an iPhone is
useless. Remember the rapid decline of Blackberry? Among other things, it
came after the London riots when Research in Motion agreed to play ball
with UK authorities. Apple is already struggling and Alphabet overtook them
as number one company. News like this do not do them any good.

> You can take that to the bank!!!

I'm taking it to Family Bank, KTDA plaza branch basement parking. :)
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