Apple and the NSA breach


ACLU Principal Technologist:

Apple: If we're forced to build a tool to hack iPhones, someone will steal it.
FBI: Nonsense.
Russia: We just published NSA's hacking tools

This tweet was a part of a Business Insider article looking at the recent NSA hack. The tweet summarizes well how backdoor tools can go wrong. It's bad enough when exploits and vulnerabilities are hoarded in secret, but a designed backdoor that everyone knows is there should be very tempting. Once it's out, every user is at-risk until patched. In the case of a recent Microsoft mistake, a patch may not always be possible.