For Tim Cook, collaborating with the FBI would create software … – Digital Look

During an interview given to ABC News US news last night, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, stated that, in his opinion, submit to the FBI orders in case the shooter San Bernardino would create “the equivalent in software , to cancer. “

” the only way [to unlock the iPhone] would write a piece of software that we see as a kind of equivalent in software, to cancer. We think it’s a bad idea to write it and we never would write, “Cook said.

This was the first public appearance of Cook after Apple published an open letter in which he refused to submit to a court decision that required the company burlasse the safety of their iPhones. For the CEO, the central issue of the case is whether “the government could force Apple to write software that would let vulnerable hundreds of thousands of consumers worldwide.”

Cook also stated that company has cooperated with the investigation. “They came to us and asked for all the information we had about this phone, and we gave everything. But this case is not about a cell phone. This case is about the future,” he said.

CEO Apple also admitted that “to oppose his government in a matter that does not seem right to you” is a position “very uncomfortable”, but you want to “stand firm on this principle.” “There are probably more iformação about you on your smartphone than in your whole house,” he said.