"Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist"
Um... no. Perhaps until they get a whiff of a professional, um, "motivator" in the guise of an FBI agent or carefully-chosen warden. Some of you guys crack under the pressure of solving a C++ warning. The guy who upvotes every "Ten things about being an Introvert" post at HN will last precisely ten seconds when presented with that reality.
I admire a good hunger strike every now and then but this case has been mismanaged by both sides. Slippery slopes and domino theories but really -- you're gonna rot in jail versus coughing up a pin code to protect the privacy of a dead terrorist? This could have been narrowed, should have been narrowed, and an anonymous post card with four digits on it could end the standoff. And that's the way it's always been done. Apple seems ignorant of this reality and they are going to pay a dear price for their position -- even before they incur the cost of forcing employees into an ethical rat trap.
Apple shouldn't have been surprised by this. They will however pay a dear price for the posturing. And they will have wasted valuable public sentiment when the government tries again, which it will.
Um... no. Perhaps until they get a whiff of a professional, um, "motivator" in the guise of an FBI agent or carefully-chosen warden. Some of you guys crack under the pressure of solving a C++ warning. The guy who upvotes every "Ten things about being an Introvert" post at HN will last precisely ten seconds when presented with that reality.
I admire a good hunger strike every now and then but this case has been mismanaged by both sides. Slippery slopes and domino theories but really -- you're gonna rot in jail versus coughing up a pin code to protect the privacy of a dead terrorist? This could have been narrowed, should have been narrowed, and an anonymous post card with four digits on it could end the standoff. And that's the way it's always been done. Apple seems ignorant of this reality and they are going to pay a dear price for their position -- even before they incur the cost of forcing employees into an ethical rat trap.