[Discuss] Encrypt Everything? Good Luck With That

[Rich Pieri]

On 3/29/2016 10:55 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> I suppose there's a wheel within this wheel: perhaps someone with a 
> finger in the FBI's budget pie wanted to strong-arm a hefty campaign 
> contribution from Apple. It's also possible that Apple's execs wanted 
> some free ink and to boost the iPhone's reputation for security, and 
> that everyone inside the beltway knew how this would play out months ago.

Follow the money.

Apple is, right now, one of the largest banks in the world in all but
name. You think not? Two words: Apple Pay. This whole thing has been a
dog and pony show staged by Apple in order to promote the security of
their systems in order to boost confidence in Apple Pay.

Whether or not that backfired given the apparent ease that security was
broken remains to be seen.

-- 
Rich P.