Apple's cooperation with Chinese officials
Quote from LA Times: "Since the iPhone was officially introduced in China seven years ago, Apple has overcome a national security backlash there and has censored apps that wouldn’t pass muster with C...
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wildtoad wrote:
China is a government controlled country, and has complete say of what their citizens can read, say, do. If Apple or any other company wants to do business in China they have to play by their rules, or take theIr toys and go home. Google and Facebook have to play by China’s rules also.
I support Apple in not creating a “back door” into their products which can be exploited by not so nice people. There has been several instances where police / FBI have gained access to locked down iPhones using third party software and services. Millions of people keep their very private information on iPhones, iPads, iCloud storage. I want it near impossible for anyone other than me to get that data.
Paragraph one is exactly the point. Apple believes in security but they believe more in profit. Principles are important, but dollars are more so. You would have to assume that Chinese have learned not to keep "very private" information on the phone. Since they have this back door I guess they can hack your phone, as well. I have assumed, from the day Al Gore invented the internet that anything I put on an electronic device connected to the internet is vulnerable. By the way, the FBI is still able to, eventually get to the information they need to keep us safe. They just have to spend a lot more of our resources than China does to get there.
