Tim Cook to Time: 'I feel like I'm in this bad dream'

17.03.2016
Tim Cook gave a long interview to Time magazine about Apple’s fight with the FBI over its refusal to create “GovtOS,” a more crackable version of iOS to side-load onto the seized iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The edited version is here, and Time also published the full transcript.

If you’ve been following the case—if you read about the Congressional hearing, or watched Tim Cook’s interview with ABC News, or even John Oliver’s entertaining explainer on Last Week Tonight, there isn’t much new information here. The article recaps the timeline of the case while patiently listing all of Apple’s legal arguments and justifications. Still, it’s a solid recap and an entertaining read—these are the tidbits that made us smile.

Well, I never:

No, Apple isn’t crowdfunding its defense:

“When Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don’t eat the tourists”:

Let me tell you ’bout the birds and the bees and the crypto and the trees:

Good laws have limiting principles and precision-machined aluminum:

Tim Cook feels like he’s living in Bizarro World:

More encryption to come (uh, probably):

(www.macworld.com)

Susie Ochs