This is a load of drek.
The government needs to address all these "law abiding" citizens. People who don't have anything to hide should not fear any "law enforcement intrusion". The Force exists to protect them, even from themselves.
What we need is to apply a serial number to everyone (Serial Identification Number). People who'd refuse that are obviously terrorists and should be relegated to trash zones, like the trash SINless people they are.
Why should there be a right to privacy of information? Security is obviously much more important. People who deny this should be sent back abroad where they belong, as the illegal aliens they really are (and if they aren't yet, they should be made so).
Hoi, chummer, how about you back away from the deck for a minute, then come back later once it's cooled off? Once we're all in some master database, and everybody starts relying on it for identification, what do you think happens when somebody crashes it? Given how ace the government's been keeping anything safe, do you really trust them to centralize something like that?
Something
is apparently overlooked in the discussions over the backdoor. iPhone and many other smart devices already
have valid backdoors, namely, a fingerprint scanner or a set of camera and
software for capturing faces, irises and other body features, which can be
collected from the unyielding, sleeping, unconscious and dead people.
It is now
known that the authentication by biometrics usually comes with poorer security
than PIN/password-only authentication. If
Apple wants to claim that they are conscious of privacy and security, they could
tell consumers to turn off the biometric functions. If the authority wants to have those
backdoors open, they could tell consumers to keep them turned on all the times. And, security-conscious consumers could certainly
refrain from turning them on.
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There is a backdoor.already
Something is apparently overlooked in the discussions over the backdoor. iPhone and many other smart devices already have valid backdoors, namely, a fingerprint scanner or a set of camera and software for capturing faces, irises and other body features, which can be collected from the unyielding, sleeping, unconscious and dead people.
It is now known that the authentication by biometrics usually comes with poorer security than PIN/password-only authentication. If Apple wants to claim that they are conscious of privacy and security, they could tell consumers to turn off the biometric functions. If the authority wants to have those backdoors open, they could tell consumers to keep them turned on all the times. And, security-conscious consumers could certainly refrain from turning them on.