Apple CEO Tim Cook brought the encryption battle between the high-tech industry and the nation’s law enforcement authorities to prime time TV Sunday in an interview on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. During the interview, Charlie Rose asked Cook about the need for law enforcement agencies to access data that has been encrypted on Apple phones. There’s all kinds of sensitive information on smartphones today, Cook noted. “You should have the ability to protect it. The only way we know how to do that is to encrypt it.”
I don't agree with Tim Cook on much. But standing for encryption is one. I think if you give too much back to law enforcement. You also give something back to others. Now, I would be in favor of some sort of monitoring if proper authorities could gain a court order to have specific users or devices targeted and monitored through the carrier.
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Apple’s Cook Goes to the Barricades on Encryption
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 22, 2015 08:31 AMApple CEO Tim Cook brought the encryption battle between the high-tech industry and the nation’s law enforcement authorities to prime time TV Sunday in an interview on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. During the interview, Charlie Rose asked Cook about the need for law enforcement agencies to access data that has been encrypted on Apple phones. There’s all kinds of sensitive information on smartphones today, Cook noted. “You should have the ability to protect it. The only way we know how to do that is to encrypt it.”