Google's Sundar Pichai weighs in on FBI encryption issue, sides with Apple's Tim Cook

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai took to Twitter to raise his concerns over the FBI's attempt to gain access to an iPhone backdoor which could expose user information. Pichai seems to agree with Apple CEO Tim Cook who today released a strongly worded public letter in response to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's desire to be able to access the contents of people's iPhones in investigations.

"The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens," Cook declared in his open letter.

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Apple posts public letter in response to FBI iPhone unlock request

Apple CEO Tim Cook: "We believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business.."

The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.  - Tim Cook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple is now involved in a huge dispute with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over that agency's requests to build a backdoor on the iPhone. The imbroglio is rooted in the FBI's request that Apple unlock an iPhone used in a San Bernandino shooting-related court case. While Apple has often helped the FBI in legally providing data that they have, the company is worried that creating a backdoor on the iPhone's OS sets a dangerous precedent.

Cook's public letter states the following.

 "The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.

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Charlie Rose gets in depth look "Inside Apple" for 60 Minutes

Charlie Rose got to sit in with Apple's executives after their weekly meeting. Interesting to see the products each of them uses on a day-to-day basis.By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Veteran TV correspondent Charlie Rose got a golden ticket opportunity to go "Inside Apple" for an entire episode of 60 minutes. Given carte blanche by Tim Cook, Rose got to meet with the executive staff, have various one-on-one interviews with Cook, Jony Ive, Phil Schiller, Angela Ahrendts and even visits the new 'Spaceship' headquarters, a prototype Apple Retail Store and even the inner sanctum of Apple's design laboratories where next generation products are being created.

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Don’t expect a MacBook/iPad hybrid, says Apple CEO Tim Cook

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With the launch of the iPad Pro, Apple CEO Tim Cook calls it the replacement device for a notebook or desktop. But he clarifies this as meaning Windows-based notebooks and desktops and not the Mac. “We don’t regard Macs and PCs to be the same,” says Cook. “What we’ve tried to do is recognize that people use both iOS and Mac devices.” He didn’t elaborate this in his independent.ie interview. What Apple has done with the iPad Pro and its newer iOS 9 devices is focusing on the handoff feature instead of bringing iOS and OS X into a single operating system. Cook says he doesn’t think that combining the MacBook and iPad is what the consumers really want.

“Because what that would wind up doing, or what we’re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You’d begin to compromise in different ways,” says Cook.

Source: independent.ie | Via: The Verge