Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, talking about the request made by the law enforcement community to weakens IOS? stated that to comply to what the FBI is asking, would mean write a software that is sort of the equivalent of cancer.
The statement is technically wrong , a slap in the face of the people who are plagued by this deadly disease and the evidence that talk is cheap.
First: cancer is an highly evolved entity (being around since 4 billions of years or so) made of mutated cells that have lost its “self-killing” mechanism, that keep mutating and growing and creating new forms of cancer elsewhere in the body once removed by surgery or other therapies. This has nothing to do with a piece of software kept under strict control by a private company.
Second: Mr. Cook is absolutely within his rights when he tries to defend his company’s Intellectual Property, but this time Apple’s spin doctors pushed the limits much too far when for the sake of the controversy they involved people that are meeting their fate in a dire straits.
Third, of all arguments that could have been exploited by Mr. Cook’s spin doctors, referring to such a dramatic disease shows a true lack of compassion toward our fellows human beings. Maybe this is not what Mr. Cook had in mind, but this is how his statement looks like.
Absolutely correct!