If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same.
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Isn’t that a false dichotomy? It’s not “some rando at Apple” vs the government, it’s the government or whoever decides to make a phone, device? (Meaning you could have endless options).
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I would agree with you if there was a choice of devices. But to me this argument on encryption ties into tech concentration and oligopoly, so it really is the US government vs. large state-like corporate actors fighting over who controls your device.
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Because your democratically elected country jails record numbers of its population, violates its own constitution in full take surveillance, and kills civilians by drone, or cop. Encryption opens an opportunity to build a new institution that will not collaborate with it. Let's!
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Institutions that successfully (or even just allegedly) put themselves beyond state control will attract every criminal on the planet. See: cryptocurrency
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If anything, the government should incentivize apple and other companies to use the best end-to-end encryption possible. Half or more of Americans in roles crucial to public safety and the integrity of the democratic process use iPhones. We all benefit when they are secure.
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Believe it or not, I and others have spent a lot of time writing about why this is bad for information security! The fact that it enables authoritarian governments’ surveillance is just the icing on a shit cake. https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-under-doormats-CSAIL.pdf …
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To give a more concrete example: Apple enables end-to-end encrypted backups, but has failed to deploy this feature for standard iCloud backup data because governments told them not to. This has real consequences for security.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-51207744 …
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Some policy decisions relate to concrete harm in the present. Some relate to the potential for abuse in the future. Always insisting on the former removes many valuable tools from your policy arsenal.
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