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Yoni Heisler
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Apple's legal wrangling with the FBI over mobile encryption continues to play out in dramatic fashion. On one hand, we have the DOJ going so far as to boldly claim that they might seek to compel Apple to hand over its iOS source code along with the electronic signature needed to run a modified version of iOS on an iPhone. And on the other hand, we have Tim Cook articulating that the FBI wants Apple to effectively create the "software equivalent of cancer."
With this particular backdrop, one can see why Tim Cook feels that he's been living in a "bad dream" ever since the issue of encryption exploded onto the scene and took over the news cycle. Expounding on the matter in a recent TIME interview, Cook said the FBI's approach to the issue has been unprofessional and that he was "deeply offended" by the FBI "lying" about Apple's intentions.
And yet, in the midst of all this, one group we haven't heard much of anything from are Apple engineers, the very people who, if the FBI has its way, would be responsible for creating an entirely new version of iOS that one might reasonably categorize as a backdoor.
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