Tomas Chlebek Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was one of the guests on Conan O'Brien's American talk show on Monday. In addition to the special price of Apple's first computer, a call to the Vatican and Woz's lousy home internet connection, there was also controversy Apple with the FBI.
Wozniak prefaced his comment by mentioning that he was one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It is a global non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals and small technology companies in litigation that threatens to infringe on personal freedoms on the Internet. It also participates in exposing the unconstitutional use of digital technologies in the government, supports the development of new technologies that have the potential to better protect personal and civil freedom on the Internet, etc.
Today, the 65-year-old Wozniak followed up with an argument similar to that recently presented Apple's head of software development, Craig Federighi. He said it was wrong to give countries the ability to require companies to backdoor their products' software. As an example, he mentioned China, which, according to him, could have the same requirement as the US, the fulfillment of which could lead to security breaches even at the facilities of US government officials.
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In addition, the case, based on which the FBI requires Apple to develop software that reduces the security of its products, according to Wozniak, is "the weakest it could ever be." Verizon, the carrier used by the terrorists' mobile devices, turned over all available text and phone call information to the FBI, and even then, no link was established between the San Bernardino attackers and a terrorist organization. Moreover, the iPhone, which is the subject of the dispute, was only the attacker's work phone. For these reasons, according to Wozniak, it is highly unlikely that the device contains information that could be of any use to the FBI.
He also mentioned that he wrote a computer virus for OS X several times in his life, but always deleted it immediately because he was afraid of hackers who could get their hands on it.
