What the US intelligence agency is asking the tech company to enact may not affect mobile security as much as its CEO Tim Cook wants you to believe
The war between Apple and the FBI is a PR war. And it’s one that the FBI has fought well,from its initial selection of the battleground (a fight over access to a dead murderer’s government-owned iPhone) to the choreographed intervention of the relatives of the victims of the San Bernadino shootings – who were contacted by the FBI for support before the dispute even became public, according to Reuters.
But Apple has also been carefully controlling the debate through its own interventions, or nowhere is that more obvious than Tim Cook’s open letter published final week,headlined A Message to Our Customers.
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Source: theguardian.com