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Governments want an Access to our Data, but Tim Cook Insisted, Still Says No For The Back Door

Like always politicians keep the media busy with stupid stuff and instead of accepting their fault on increasing the threat of terrorism. They are trying to make people think these is technology companies fault.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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Governments want an Access to our Data, but Tim Cook Insisted, Still Says No For The Back Door

Like always politicians keep the media busy with stupid stuff and instead of accepting their fault on increasing the threat of terrorism. They are trying to make people think these is technology companies fault. And pointing their fingers to Apple, Google or any other tech firms.

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With this last attack in Paris, authorities learn that terrorists are using social media or some apps the communicate. So the politician who should work on a useful solution to this problem. They are choosing the easy way with pointing out the smartphones manufacturers.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed even their company has no access to user data and they will not put a backdoor in their devices. One of the other reasons that authorities wants to access the user data that many people who are child pornographers, drug traffickers and other criminals are using Facebook, Apple and Google to communicate with each other.
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So, it is true that criminals are using smartphones or websites to communicate with each other, but even you give the access to data, in the internet world, there is always the other way. If you want to catch the terrorist, use the military and intelligence agencies spies for that, we are already wasting trillion dollars in that area. Do you wish to get the drug traffickers, try to control drug use or just legalize marijuana Uruguay did it a couple of years ago, and crime level rapidly went down. And we already know cannabis is less harmful than cigarettes or alcohol. The point I want to tell the politician just want to avoid what should be done and goes for the easy way. Just blame someone, one of the best one is Donald Trump…
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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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