Why did Apple push back so hard against the FBI? "When you're making $50-100Bn a year in profit, you can't put the money in a bank: you have to *become* a bank. And that's what Apple Pay is about ... The FBI thought they were asking for a way to unlock a mobile phone, because the FBI is myopically focussed on past criminal investigations, not the future of the technology industry, and the FBI did not understand that they were actually asking for a way to tracelessly unlock and mess with every ATM and credit card on the planet circa 2030"
Link Archive 2/9/16 - 3/31/16
Link Archive 2/9/16 - 3/31/16
Link Archive 2/9/16 - 3/31/16
Why did Apple push back so hard against the FBI? "When you're making $50-100Bn a year in profit, you can't put the money in a bank: you have to *become* a bank. And that's what Apple Pay is about ... The FBI thought they were asking for a way to unlock a mobile phone, because the FBI is myopically focussed on past criminal investigations, not the future of the technology industry, and the FBI did not understand that they were actually asking for a way to tracelessly unlock and mess with every ATM and credit card on the planet circa 2030"