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Apple said in court filings last month that it would take from six to 10 engineers up to a month to meet the government's demands. However, because Apple is so compartmentalized, the challenge of building what the company described as "GovtOS" would be substantially complicated if key employees refused to do the work.
"Such conscription is fundamentally offensive to Apple's core principles and would pose a severe threat to the autonomy of Apple and its engineers," Apple's lawyers wrote in the company's final brief to the Federal District Court for the Central District of California.
After interviewing Apple engineers, it has been revealed there is indeed a discussion among Apple employees about resisting any court order to deliberately weaken Apple security. Key engineers have said they may quit the company if forced to participate.
Huge fan of civil disobedience, and up till now it didn't occur to me that Apple engineers may quit. It seems like the government may really have no way at all of forcing the decryption of the iPhone without forcefully conscripting engineers into service, which is unlikely.
Good news everybody!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday March 18 2016, @10:28PM
The only candidate who would be pro-privacy here is Sanders, but the Democratic party is doing everything they can to sideline him and make Hillary the nominee. And the idea that Hillary would be any better than Obama is pure fantasy; if she says anything different, it's because she's lying to get votes. Remember how Obama did a 180 and adopted Bush's policies when he was elected? Hillary will be no different, except that she's not even bothering to make as many nice promises as Obama did when he was campaigning the first time.
Oh well, whether Trump, Cruz, or Hillary wins the general election, at least I'll have 4 years where I can tell the Hillary supporters, "I told you so".
Anyway, my contention is not that voting GOP will get us away from authoritarianism. My contention is that Obama's actions are turning people off of the Democratic party, especially younger voters, and in doing so, they're going to cause many people to not vote at all, vote third-party (like for Jill Stein), futilely write in Bernie's name, or vote Trump out of spite, and the end result will be that either Trump or Cruz (or whoever the GOP nominates) will win. Obama isn't endearing himself and his party to the tech-savvy younger crowd.
Of course, it's totally impossible to say how the election will go at this point. We could even see Paul Ryan running on the GOP ticket, if the GOP has a brokered convention. And we could see Trump running as an independent. I should hope if that happens that Bernie will say "fuck it" and do the same; that could be really interesting.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday March 19 2016, @01:16AM
to the tech-savvy younger crowd.
I'm tired of seeing this. Just being able to use Facebook and a few applications does not make someone tech-savvy. Most young people do not understand technology to any meaningful extent.