| >I'm talking about the government's ability to collect information about conversations you had 10 years ago after a suspected crime which occurred, say, last week. You know that people used to put a lot of their conversations onto paper, right? If you kept your ten year old letters, and the government had cause to believe you'd committed a bunch of crimes (maybe you hadn't? you seem like an all right guy, the government probably just goofed, these things happen), it could go and search your ten year old conversations and see if they contained proof of you committing a bunch of crimes. The fact that we uses electrons and binary math instead of paper and ink doesn't change anything at all. >Here are detailed responses to Sam Harris [1] and President Obama [2] I appreciate the effort but these read like the same doomsday scenarios where it's just treated as an inevitable given that providing a method of government access is directly equivalent to providing access to any and every hacker. >there will be data breaches, people will be upset, they won't buy iPhones, and this industry will disappear from the US overnight This is the kind of doomsaying I'm talking about. Most people don't buy iPhones for their disk encryption, they buy iPhones because they're shiny and have the apple logoand you can do facebook with them. The PSN breach didn't stop Sony from selling 35 million playstation 4s; an iPhone breach would inconvenience some people, be embarrassing for apple, and then everyone would continue on buying iPhones because the alternative is to not buy an iPhone, which most iPhone owners would consider about as acceptable as cutting off one of their own hands. |
We're talking past each other. Sorry, I did my best to explain another perspective for you.