When even your enemies defend you publicly, you must be doing something right. This is what I thought when I learned that Google CEO Sundar Pichai had published several tweets explaining how he sees the case Tim Cook (or Apple) vs. FBI. But it is that all this is more important than we imagine, and we do not say it; says the activist for privacy on the Internet Edward Snowden, who is also defending on Twitter Tim cook's stance of refusing to help the FBI to unlock a terrorist's iPhone.
Snowden says Apple's battle for security is the most important in a whole decade. He also complained that Google had not defended Apple's position, assuring that, if it had not done so, it is because it was in favor of providing governments with user data. Between the tweets of Snowden there was also one in which he claimed that the FBI had made citizens have to trust Apple to defend their rights, and not otherwise.
The @FBI is creating a world where citizens rely on him # Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around. https://t.co/vdjB6CuB7k
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 17, 2016
The FBI is creating a world where citizens trust Apple to defend their rights, and not otherwise.
This is the most important tech case in a decade. silence means @google picked a side, but it's not the public's. https://t.co/mi5irJcr25
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 17, 2016
This is the most important technological moment in a decade. The silence means that Google has chosen a side, but it is not the public's side.
Snowden's statements are not a surprise, but there are other media outlets that are trying to ridicule Tim Cook's decision, claiming that it will do more harm than good. In any case, these media, as Snowden says, have clearly chosen the side of governments but, luckily, our devices do not run an operating system developed by them.
As you can see, the debate continues, some in favor of privacy and others in favor of supposed security. What part are you on?
Someone once said, give me a foothold and I will move the world, in the same way that is precisely what you are waiting for.
those hungry wolves, a back door for the name of certain people to violate our self. Each and every one of the scenes of a terrorist act are indecent and reprehensible, but we cannot judge the safety of a single individual by that of many, safety is everything, the x has always marked the place and there have always been people there to find out what the x marked.