Apple, platform security, and the next big war
Computerworld May 2, 2023
‘I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cybersecurity,’ Apple CEO Tim Cook told Time in 2016. Seven years later, it seems clear the struggle is real.
When Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2016 warned of a cybersecurity war, he was specifically discussing the pressure Apple then faced to create back doors on its platforms so law enforcement could snoop on users.
He was championing encryption and opposing the creation of designer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by any entity that knows they exist. Since then, we’ve seen a cancerous tumult of surveillance as a service that companies such as the NSO Group break out, each of them using the kind...