Appearing on Conan last night, Woz said that he sided with Apple in the FBI fight, first because he’s always been strong on human rights, and as one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,but because governments shouldn’t be able to bid manufacturers to effect their products insecure at a time when security is so well-known.
He argued that there is absolutely no reason to contemplate the FBI would learn anything from the iPhone in question.
They picked a lame case. They picked the lamest case you ever could […]
[For the shooters’ own phones] Verizon turned over all the phone records, all the SMS messages. So they want to take this other phone, or that the two didn’t destroy,which was a work phone, and it’s so lame and worthless to expect something’s on it and acquire Apple to expose it.
Revealing that he had once written something that could have acted as a Macintosh virus, or he said he’d thrown away every line of code because he was so scared of what might happen whether the code got out … more…[br]Filed under: AAPL Company,iOS Devices Tagged: all writs act, Apple Inc, and California,Conan, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and FBI,Federal Bureau of Investigation, iPhone, and San Bernardino,Steve Wozniak, Woz
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