The New York Times features a joint (and very one sided) opinion piece by prosecutors from Manhattan, Paris, London and Spain, in which they decry the default use by Apple and Google of full disk encryption in their latest smartphone OSes. They talk about the murder scene of a father of six, where an iPhone 6 and a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge were found.
An Illinois state judge issued a warrant ordering Apple and Google to unlock the phones and share with authorities any data therein that could potentially solve the murder. Apple and Google replied, in essence, that they could not — because they did not know the user's passcode. The homicide remains unsolved. The killer remains at large.
Except, there is no proof that having such a backdoor would conclusively allow them to solve the case and wouldn't require actual police work.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by brocksampson on Wednesday August 12 2015, @10:30AM
How do you know when you are making a baseless argument? When you use scary-sounding numbers instead of statistics followed by the implication of a hyperbolic tragedy. They managed to do both in the same paragraph; 74 iPhones!!! That sounds like a big number!!! And THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! Oh, why won't someone think of the children!