{"id":1208,"date":"2014-10-03T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:17:07","slug":"fbi-doesnt-have-a-moral-leg-criticizing-google-apple-over-phone-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/fbi-doesnt-have-a-moral-leg-criticizing-google-apple-over-phone-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Doesn&#8217;t Have A Moral Leg To Stand On Criticizing Google, Apple Over Phone Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The FBI keeps hammering at Google and Apple, saying that encrypting cellphones by default helps all kinds of criminals. Frankly, this is disgusting. Of the FBI, that is. They don\u2019t have a single moral leg to stand on.<\/strong> Imagine if building constructors had started keeping the master key to all buildings they constructed, all private residences, even after those residences had been sold and somebody had moved in there. The builders wouldn\u2019t do this out of spite or malice, but just as a result of not really thinking about what they were doing. Imagine if things sort of just developed that way in the building industry, without anybody reflecting much on it. Then, law enforcement discovers that there are master keys to homes somewhere they can just go and get them, so they go to these contractors to demand the keys to random private residences under threat of force. At that point, law enforcement would be able to walk in and out of people\u2019s private homes without a warrant, just because the contractors conveniently kept a master key. You can see that happening, can\u2019t you? Just like law enforcement has gone into hospitals and fetched blood samples from suspects for DNA matching. (Yes, they have.) At this point, the contractors would realize that saving the master key to sold private residences wasn\u2019t a very good idea, and decide to stop doing anything of the sort. <strong>This is where Google and Apple are with respect to mobile phones today.<\/strong> So the FBI\u2019s furious strawman objections at Google and Apple basically boil down to \u201cIf you don\u2019t keep that master key to the super-private devices you sell, we can\u2019t force you to help us with walking straight into those super-private devices at our leisure and read whatever we like.\u201d <strong>Yes, that objection is true. But it\u2019s not an undesired side effect. It\u2019s the whole damn point in the first place.<\/strong> It doesn\u2019t matter if encryption of your private data \u201chelps kidnappers\u201d, which the FBI desperately claims. It\u2019s doubtful, but it\u2019s also completely irrelevant. It doesn\u2019t matter if it helps whomever horrible. Law enforcement just <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> get a master key to your house to walk in at their leisure, <em>period<\/em>. They need a search warrant. And even <em>with a warrant<\/em>, you\u2019re under <em>no obligation whatsoever<\/em> to open the door for them; they have a legal right to <em>try<\/em> to break down your door, but absolutely no fictive right to <em>succeed<\/em> in breaking in. If they can\u2019t bust down the door (or open a safe), even when it\u2019s legal to do so, tough luck. That\u2019s not your problem, nor should it be. The FBI\u2019s objections are deeply immoral, and they should not just be called out on it, but called out for how disgustingly they are behaving. They need to be publicly and visibly torn down from their imaginary high horse. 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