Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Apple’s refusal to unlock their customer’s cellphone for law-enforcement, even though that customer is the late San Bernadino terrorist Syed Farook. This is the most painless explanation I’ve yet to see as to why Apple CEO Tim Cook feels he cannot help the FBI. Oh sure, there was a time when Apple could crack open a phone for law enforcement, but that was before Apple devised their new super-duper security feature. Their security now makes it impossible even for Apple to crack a phone…And that is how Tim Cook feels it should stay.
See if you too feel that a program should not be designed to crack the code. The FBI says they want Farook’s information, but once the code is developed, we will have unleashed one of the very last bastions of security in this nosy world.
In a montage of political big-wigs weighing in, it becomes clear that politicians know very little of technical matters, and should never concern themselves with ‘back-door access.’