Steve Wozniak interviewed on the Conan Show
The co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak He was one of the relevant people in the world of technology who stood in favor of the company he founded with Steve Jobs defending the privacy of users and against the request of the FBI that, basically, seeks to access everyone's information users, whether or not we are criminals. He did it again last night, this time in an interview with Conan O'Brien on TBS.
On the Show, Wozniak talked about the FBI had picked up the most frivolous case they could have picked up, that of two telephones owned by people who had not been terrorists nor were they linked to terrorism in any way, not to mention that they also had no criminal record. In other words, a case of two normal people, with normal lives and who complied with the law. This is proof that the FBI wants access to everything, no matter who it is.
Steve Wozniak talks about the FBI and its intentions
“Verizon delivered all the phone recordings and SMS messages. So what they want is to use this other phone for the two who didn't destroy - which was a work phone - and it's too lazy and worthless to hope there's something on it and try to force Apple to expose it.
Regarding the creation of special software that allows disabling security features and that allows brute force the security code, something that has been called govtOS In reference to the fact that it would be an operating system created so that the different governments had total control over it, Wozniak explains the danger to which users would be exposed:
A couple of times in my life, I have tried to write something that could be used as a virus that could spread itself between Macintosh computers. Each time, I have thrown away every piece of code that I had written. I was very scared inside because you don't want to leave something like that outside. Once you create something like that, there is a good chance for hackers to get in..
Wozniak is co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization whose goal is to protect individual rights in technology and, on the other hand, co-founder of Apple, so it should not surprise us in the least that it turns against the FBI in this case. You have his statements in the interview with Conan O'Brien in the following video.
All this is a theater to make a fuss and boost Apple sales. This technique works with artists and why not with Apple? The FBI will always have access to users' private data as otherwise they may be classified as complicit in crimes and not cooperate with investigations. This circus is being invented by the United States to benefit in sales from its "Genius" Steve Jobs and that the apple is never forgotten.
It is absurd, Apple cannot be classified as an accomplice of any crime, since one of the most important points of ethics and professionalism in the technology industry is to protect user data, and it is contemplated by law .
It's not as simple as' won't you give me the data I want? Then you are an accomplice of crime ', since if you use the law to make that statement, with the same rule Apple will defend itself with the consumer protection law so as not to provide them with the means they ask for.
If this goes to more, the last word will have to be a judge, who will decide which law is the one that is considered superior in this case.