News stories today have identified a new tactic by the Justice Department to go after Apple's security system, only this time they may have a point. Justice has said that Apple has turned over information on iPhones in China almost as often as the have previously in the US. They moved data stores to servers in China as required by some of their new laws. Some of their other new laws require turning over encryption technologies and source code for certain types of businesses. They are far more aggressive in how they secure their Internet than we are.
Apple is basically saying this argument is bogus, when it is not likely to be so. I thought this would eventually come up since Apple has avoided talking about what steps it takes to comply with Chinese law. So far, only IBM has admitted to meeting the new requirements that these laws introduce. My guess is, Apple doesn't have a choice, but they can't be two-faced about it either.
Yes, it is true we don't have a law like China's, so maybe the circumstances are different, but we have to decide if we need a law because of Apple, Mircrosoft, Facebook, et al. Be careful what you wish for. A long time ago, Willis Ware at RAND said we could stop computer crime by putting an informant in every data center. Only, we don't want to get caught putting an informant in every center and that is our dilemma. We don't want to do what we would have to do to achieve the result. So, Justice tries to shoehorn in an old law that doesn't apply.
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