Originally Posted By: Nate1979
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: Nate1979
Don't believe for a second that Apple couldn't make a secure back door. Lame excuse, and hiding behind the flag to do what they want. Just another reason I won't touch an Apple product.
There is no such thing as a secure back door, thats an oxymoron. By definition a backdoor is a security breach.
So you are saying that Apple is able to design an OS which has many points of entry but is not able to design a secure method for the govt to gain access under court order? If the system already has a front door with a key why can't there be a back door with another key?
Correct. Currently the only point of entry is with the PIN, passphrase or finger print of the user. This is the only point of entry into the device. The user has control over how simple or complex this is; how difficult it would be for somebody else to bypass the security on this single entry point. And, as noted, there's a limit as to how many attempts are allowed before the device locks, self-wipes....etc. And this is configurable by the user.
A backdoor on the other hand would allow a special proprietary tool to access the data on the phone. This tool and mode of access would have to be universal, it could not be unique for each device like a finger print. And while there are most certainly people with the same passcode on their device out there, nobody knows who those people are so subsequently for the sake of argument, the front door for each phone is "unique", there is no master passphrase, it is per user. This is why it is secure. A backdoor, being universal, means that giving that access allows that access absolutely. To all devices running that operating system. It is a global compromise to the software, one key, all doors.