in a case in San Bernardino, United States, courts have ruled that the government has the right to succeed to wiretap an old iPhone, and Apple is demanding help. We warned about it for years: the ubiquitous government capacity to try a wiretap will be confused with a right to succeed in such wiretaps. We have now reached the dangerous point where the courts agree.
By the early 190s when the government tried to ban strong encryption, and throughout the Clipper Chip debate in the mid 190s, various attempts to contain open source and current fantasies of a "golden key", the government has always tried to keep a strong encryption of the hands of the masses.
the concept of a golden key is nonsense of course. the notion that a government can maintain such a key for itself and keep out of the hands of the 191 other governments and everybody is ridiculous
At present, we know that this government. - Not one, but all of them, in fact - have themselves taken the right to wiretap everybody all the time or at least, the right to seek a wiretap on everyone. .
We have warned for a number of years it is only a matter of time before those governments confuse their technical capability to try wiretapping everyone for right to succeed in everyone wiretap all the time. We warned about it for years, and the day has come. In fact, it's worse :. Executive branches of governments have had this illusion for a while, but it was contained by other parts of government Saner far
Translated into analog words: if you have a security at home, and the government has a search warrant for your house, the government has the right to try to open that safe of yours by ordained and destructive means. However, the government has not a kind of right of succeed in these attempts to open your safe.
What's new in the case of San Bernadino is that courts have agreed this strange assertion. There are three branches of government, designed to keep each other in check. For the first time, the judiciary agree with the runaway executive power that the executive not only has the right to attempt wiretap anyone at will, but it has a right to succeed in his attempts to do so.
This is shocking, horrible and dangerous. Fortunately, Apple is doing the right thing and basically ask any and all parts of government demanding such a thing to make a very public walk. It is difficult to see how they could have chosen any other course of action and kept the trust of their customers - which did not prevent many other companies to do the exact wrong thing in this situation, and out of the business shortly after.
This rabbit hole to erode privacy, however, does not end here ,. Do not think it can not get worse. The next step, once governments have asserted a right weird to successfully wiretap is to assert a right to as understand they wiretaps. Speaking in code? Even talking in a foreign language? Forget that.
Of course, such repression will be made to sound like a government department.
"Welcome to the telephone service. Your friends at Homeland Security now include English, Spanish and French, and you can choose from all these languages for your conversation today ' hui even change language mid-conversation. If you want to chat in Arabic today, press 9 now, and an agent will help you little person. thank you for helping America safe. "
Think it weird? All monitoring was weird today there are only ten. It is useless for the government to back down to keep control of the narrative, to know exactly what ideas come from and where go where. It can not happen to the telephone network, as shown, but do not take for granted that it will not happen to more modern equivalents on the Internet.
This is about controlling the power of the narrative , which is the highest power that you can hold in a company. We'll look more at what and why the government is afraid of losing it tomorrow. (Teaser: the first time a government has lost the power of the story, it led to 0 years of civil war across the known world.)
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