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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Replying to @matthew_d_green
The US government already regulates the electrical design of the phone, its chemical composition, whether it can cause cancer in California and so on. I think you have to make an argument about actual harms, not just the China angle.
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Replying to @Pinboard @matthew_d_green
Concretely, why does it hurt me if my democratically elected government sets encryption policy rather than some rando at Apple (the status quo)? I think the argument can go through, but it requires more effort than just scaring people with regulation.
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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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Replying to @matthew_d_green @Pinboard
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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Replying to @matthew_d_green
This kind of speaks to my point of Apple acting a lot like a government in its own right.
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The US government has the ability to legislate (limits on) Apple’s encryption capabilities anytime they want. They can also legislate minimum feature requirements on devices. Within those sensible bounds, Apple should have latitude.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @Pinboard
Our government currently allows encrypted backup by law, but pressures companies not to deploy it by policy. That seems problematic. China will likely make even stronger demands as Apple gets deeply in bed with them.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
Yeah, it's the Chinese demands, Apple's unique vulnerability to them, and its established record of caving that make me distrust them about as much as the Feds. That's why I found the framing odd. I've read and enjoyed the interesting things you write on this topic.
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The only way to fight the rise of Chinese tech influence, in the end, is to have a national security policy that actually requires our devices to embed strong and verifiable security features. Instead our government is busy demanding that we unilaterally disarm.
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A more effective way to fight the rise of Chinese tech influence would be to start a Manhattan project to make America once again the world leader in emoji and fun filters
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Replying to @Pinboard @matthew_d_green
We lack the expertise in dankness.
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We couldn’t even stay the course on Vine.
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