A NPR interview with Senator Angus King (I - Maine) with some really intelligent thoughts on this. It's an audio interview

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/19/467318832/congress-should-decide-encryption-issue-sen-angus-king-says

Yeah, the same Donald Trump who owns aload of Apple stock and tweeted his boycott of Apple from a effing iPhone.

I've been fairly agnostic when it came to Trump. I mean, I couldn't vote for him, but maybe he's the President we deserve.

But I've come to the conclusion that I would vote for a rabid squirrel who was in the process of butt raping me before I would vote for Donald Trump. 

That is all. 

 

I was thinking about this a bunch this weekend, I have a question that I don't have an answer to, but maybe one of you guys know.....

At a previous job, I was in charge of everything telecom for the company I worked for. We had over 300 Blackberrys. Those (and I presume still are) were very secure devices. Probably not encrypted circa 2005-2009, but had several layers of security built in.

I had a administrative application which gave me full control of a device from a security perspective. Say someone left their Blackberry in a taxicab and could not track it down. I could wipe all data from the device with the push of a button. If someone was fired from the company, Human Resources could collect the phone and if they needed to look at it for any reason, I could reset the password remotely within seconds.

The point I am making is this. Farook's iPhone was provided to him by his employer. Which means they should have had a policy in place that told him what he could and could not do with that phone. It also legally gives them control over the phone. Meaning that Farook really had no privacy when it came to the phone because in the even of Farook quitting his job, or getting fired, they could collect it, review it, and re-purpose it.

So my question is does Apple have an business use application that would allow employers to set security protocols for organizations to control how iPhones are used?

If so, then the FBI should not need Apple to build them a back door? If not, then Apple needs to make an enterprise business support application ASAP as it could have avoided all these problems for them.