As much as I hate sounding like a conspiracy theorist this article got me thinking a little bit about some of the backdoor's and the tools that our everyday technology is vulnerable too. A great deal of the comments on this particular thread talk about how you "have nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal" or "if it helps get criminals off the street who cares" and I think that's a fair point. On the other hand, the thought of any government agency (no offense intended but particularity the US ones as I'm not a US citizen) bothers me a little. I guess what I object to the most is the covert nature of it all. I don't object to law enforcement having tools that they need in a rapidly becoming digital world, and I don't mind them using such tools to get criminals off the street, but I do think that more transparent controls over such tools are needed. I'm not entirely sure what that should look like in a global world, but I can't say I'm cool with a government agency having the ability to read everything I've ever done on my phone without my knowledge.
Article Source - http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/21/covert-backdoors-ios/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
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