Cook said in an interview with The Telegraph.
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Apple’s boss Tim Cook is touting the company’s iPad Pro as a replacement for personal computers.
As Tim Cook put it to The Telegraph in an wide-ranging interview, that would “hold [Apple] back from innovating”. He pointed to recent data breaches (hello, TalkTalk hack) and emphasised that they can endanger both public privacy and national security.
That worries firms like Apple, whose iMessage service offers “end to end” encryption, meaning the company doesn’t have the ability to read messages sent over the app.
In effect, the company would have to create a “back door” in the encryption process in order to comply with the new rules, and this is where hackers could potentially take advantage. He asserted that encryption can not be sacrificed for efficient surveillance, since such access would require the creation of “backdoor” access for government agencies.
He said it would be wrong for the United Kingdom government’s latest super-spy bid – the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, which landed in Parliament last week – to weaken cryptography. “We don’t feel we have the right to read their emails”, he said.
What does the proposed snooping law say about encryption?
“The job of the [Apple Watch] is to do more and more things on your wrist so that you don’t need to pick up your phone as often”, Schiller said to Levy. “Encryption is widely available”, he told the newspaper.
He also says that the apps being developed envisage a much wider variety of activities being conducted via the television, which is another good sign as to the device’s future success and “will really change the living room entirely”.
Reading between the lines, one could easily argue that “sophisticated encryption” means encryption that actually works. “You can’t sketch with something like that, you need something that mimics the look and feel of the pencil itself or you’re not going to replace it”, Cook said.
People can now use the “tap and go” technology for any transaction under £30, making it more likely to be used in restaurants and shops as well as cafes and newsagents.
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Cook’s comments follow shortly after the United Nations privacy chief Joseph Cannataci’s comments, saying the UK government was on an “absolute offensive” to pass the bill, which he called “worse than scary”. You need to strengthen it. You need to stay ahead of the folks that want to break it’.
