> Not if they designed it properly.
You can (and always should) design encryption code without having a single root key. Entirely open sourcing that code should not make any difference to the security of the encrypted data.
You can (and always should) design encryption code without having a single root key. Entirely open sourcing that code should not make any difference to the security of the encrypted data.
How do you know that? Secret court orders are secret. "National security" trumps everything these days.
LavaBit chose to shut down rather to insert a backdoor that was forced on them. I doubt Apple will shut down over that.
And thanks to Snowden we know Apple's products have been backdoored already.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-ns...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2609310/hacking/apple--cisc...
Are you saying it's outside of scope for NSA to forcefully install a backdoor or request encryption keys?
How do you explain LavaBit?
How do explain NSA's hardware in data centers?
How do you explain NSA's hardware in cell phone providers centers?
How do you explain NSA's backdoors in Microsoft's products?
And I think an Apple employee is that last person that would leak anything. They work for Apple after all, starting to work there surely takes some abandonment of principle.
In the end, why would anybody feel assured by what someone believes someone else would do?
Edit: Why is imaginenore downvoted so heavily? His concerns seem rather rudimentary.