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Topic: Technology

How Tim Cook became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy

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According to the New York Time, SAN FRANCISCO — Letters from

around the word started !ing the in"o# of Timoth$ %& Cook not

ong after the 'roduction of the 'rimar$ discosures from (dward

)& Snowden a"out mass go*ernment reconnaissance& +%o $ou

know what amount of securit$ intends to us the$ asked A''e-s

C(O& %o $ou get it. /r& Cook did& 0e was 'eased that A''e sod

'h$sica items — tee'hones, ta"ets and 'orta"e 1Cs — and did

not mo*ement in the 'ersona, com'uteri2ed 'oints of interest of

its cients- i*es&

That 'osition soidi!ed on Tuesda$ when /r& Cook crouched for a

considera"e ength of time with attorne$s and others at A''e-s

home o3ce to make sense of how to react to an eected court

re4uest re4uiring the organi2ation to et the 5nited States

go*ernment "reak into the i1hone of one of the shooters in a San

6ernardino, Caif&, mass shooting& Late Tuesda$, /r& Cook "rought

the "atte o'en with a etter to cients that he "$ and "$ marked&


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78e gro'e we shoud tak des'ite what we see as an o*ere#tend

"$ the 5&S& go*ernment,7 com'osed /r& Cook, 99& 7At ast, we

e#'ect this interest woud undermine the *er$ :e#i"iities and

freedom our egisature is intended to secure&7 /r& Cook-s stando;

with aw authori2ation authorities is demonstrati*e of his own

ad*ancement from an in the "ackground administrator at A''e to

one of the word-s most straightforward cor'orate o3cias& Amid

that time, he has mo*ed an once shrouded Siicon


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su''orter Ste*en 1& (m'o$ments, was *iewed as a "usiness

s$m"o, he ne*er took forcefu 'ositions on such matters as /r&

Cook now has& 6eing at oggerheads with the 5nited States

go*ernment is ha2ardous for A''e and might draw a down'our of

o'en feed"ack of the word-s most im'ortant organi2ation during

a 'eriod when its de*eo'ment rate has essentia$ deceerated&

Yet indi*iduas who know /r& Cook said he didn-t trust he had a

decision $et to "e *oca& /r& Cook, who turned into A''e-s C(O in

=>??, has ong said that organi2ations and their 'ioneers ought to

consider themse*es critica indi*iduas from cit$ societ$& In

Se'tem"er, he underscored that this o"igation 7has "ecome

'articuar$ in the ast cou'e of decades or so as go*ernment has

thought that it was more hard to 'ush ahead&7

/r& Cook 7sa$s what he acce'ts, 'articuar$ in trou"esome

circumstances,7 said %on Logan, the 're*ious director of Time

8arner Ca"e who has "een com'anions with /r& Cook since he

got to "e C(O of A''e, hoding o*er their mutua 'ace of

graduation, Au"urn 5ni*ersit$& Of /r& Cook-s resistance to the

court re4uest, /r& Logan said@ 7Tim is right now managing an


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e#ce'tiona$ trou"esome circumstance and he knows the choice

he has made has oads of conse4uences, great or terri"e& 6e that

as it ma$, he needs to make the "est decision&7 A''e decined to

make /r& Cook accessi"e for a meeting& The organi2ation is

'anning to record a restriction "rief against the court re4uest&

/r& Cook-s thoughts regarding munici'a o"igation were hafwa$

sha'ed amid his adoescence in 'ro*incia Aa"ama& In a

discourse at the 5nited Nations in =>?, he descri"ed how Bu Bu#

Bansmen had once co'ied a cross on the garden of a dark

fami$-s home and how he hoered for them to sto'& 7This 'icture

was for a time engra*ed in m$ mind, and it woud change m$ ife

'er'etua$,7 he said&

At A''e, which he oined as a senior o3cia in ?DDE, /r& Cook was

a 'eacefu !gure for a signi!cant 'art of the 'eriod when he

worked for /r& (m'o$ments, an actor who 'ri2ed m$ster$ at the

organi2ation& After /r& Occu'ations *entured down in *iew of

sick$ we"eing, /r& Cook started making A''e more o'en,

distri"uted a $ear$ gi*e an account of su''iers and working

conditions for more than a miion assem"$ ine a"orers& In =>?,


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/r& Cook unco*ered he was ga$, a mo*e genera$ seen as

creating an im'ression a"out ga$ rights& A $ear ago, he com'osed

a 'u"ication censuring reigious :e#i"iit$ aws that had "een

'ro'osed in more than two do2en e#'resses that woud et

indi*iduas skirt against se'aration aws that cashed with their

reigious con*ictions&

0is "untness has drawn feed"ack, with a few !nancia s'eciaists

addressing how non"usiness acti*ities — incuding some of

A''e-s ecoogica mo*es — woud add to the organi2ation-s main

concern& /r& Cook reacted at a sharehoder meeting that it is *ita

for A''e to do things 7since the$-re ust and right&7

1rotection has for some time "een a need for /r& Cook& At a tech

gathering in =>?>, he said A''e 7has de'enda"$ had an

atogether di;erent 'ers'ecti*e of 'rotection than some of our

'artners in the


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area information& /r& Cook-s 'ers'ecti*es on 'rotection soidi!ed

after some time as cients a around started entrusting more

indi*idua information to A''e-s i1hones& In the meantime, A''e

was "ecoming "urnt out on soicitations from go*ernment

authorities o*era re4uesting that the organi2ation o'en ce

'hones&

(*er$ information e#traction soicitation was dei"erate$

considered "$ A''e-s ega ad*isors& Of those esteemed true

"ue, A''e as of ate re4uired that aw im'ementation authorities

'h$sica$ set out with the de*ice to the organi2ation-s centra

station, where a trusted A''e s'eciaist woud take a shot at the

tee'hones inside Farada$ sacks, which s4uare remote signs,

amid the 'rocedure of information e#traction& 0anding these

soicitations was ama2ing$ monotonous& /ore trou"ing, the

information 'ut awa$ on its cients i1hones was de*eo'ing more

indi*idua, incuding 'hotogra'hs, messages and "ank, we"eing

and tra*e information&

8hat-s more, some administration authorities were not 'recise$

im'arting trust in A''e-s architects& In one case, after aw


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re4uirement authorities hurried a tee'hone to A''e-s home

o3ce for information e#traction, the architects found their

o"ecti*e had not em'owered the gadget-s 'assword highight& So

/r& Cook and other A''e administrators determined to "ot u'

cient information, as we as to do as such in a wa$ that woud

'ut the ke$s decisi*e$ in the hands of the cient, not the

organi2ation& 8hen A''e re*eaed another 'orta"e working

framework, iOSG, in Se'tem"er =>?, the organi2ation was

encoding a outsider information 'ut awa$ on cients- tee'hones

natura$&

7Indi*iduas ha*e a fundamenta right to 'rotection,7 /r& Cook has

said& 6$ then, /r& Snowden-s e#'osures a"out how the Nationa

Securit$ Agenc$ had co2ied u' to some tech organi2ations and

hacked others to 'ick u' cient information were resounding

around the word& The e#'osures incuded discosures of an

e#hausti*e, decadeHong Centra Inteigence Agenc$ 'roect to

trade o; A''e-s items C&I&A& e#'erts messed around with the

items so the egisature coud gather a''ication 'roducers-

information& In di;erent cases, the o3ce was im'anting s'$

de*ices in A''e-s e4ui'ment, and notwithstanding adusting an


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A''e 'rogramming o*erhau that 'ermitted go*ernment e#'erts

to record each ke$stroke&

Letters from frightened A''e cients "egan :ooding into /r&

Cook-s in"o#, "racing his 'osition on 'rotection& A''e-s eighth

*ersatie working framework, iOSE, which took o; in Se'tem"er

=>?, made it fundamenta$ unimagina"e for the organi2ation-s

s'eciaists to concentrate an$ information from ceuar

tee'hones and ta"ets& For authorities at the word-s aw

im'ementation organi2ations, the new 'rogramming was an

unmistaka"e sign that A''e was "ecoming resistant& A month

after iOSE-s discharge, )ames Come$, the chief of the F&6&I&, tod a

crowd of 'eo'e at the 6rookings Institution that A''e had gone

7too far7 with the e#tended encr$'tion, contending that the

working framework ade4uate$ cosed an$ 'ossi"iit$ of foowing

ru3ans, terrorists and aw"reakers&

Jo*ernment organi2ations started to s4uee2e A''e and other

tech organi2ations for su''osed indirect accesses that coud


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sideste' soid e;orts to esta"ish safet$& 8ith 'ressures rising,

some t$'e of s'eciai2ed "argain — whether as a chi', an indirect

access or a ke$ — was o; the ta"e "$ =>?9& At A''e, /r& Cook

and others ke't on working with s'eciaists to the degree the

organi2ation coud and agreed to court orders& Last Octo"er, an

eected udge in New York said the egisature was using so as to

e#ceed its imits a centuriesHod aw, the A 8rits Act, as the

'remise for its demand that A''e o'en an i1hone for a

medication e#amination& A''e-s ega ad*isor fa*ored the udge

for the situation& The matter has not "een determined&

After %ecem"er-s San 6ernardino assaut, A''e worked with the

F&6&I& to assem"e information that had "een mo*ed down to the

coud from a work i1hone issued to one of the attackers, as

indicated "$ court !ings& At the 'oint when agents ikewise

needed uns'eci!ed data on the tee'hone that had not "een went

down, the udge this week conceded the re4uest o"iging A''e to

make a uni4ue de*ice to he' s'eciaists a the more e;ortess$

s'it the tee'hone-s 'assword and get into the gadget& A''e had


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asked the F&6&I& to issue its a''ication for the a''aratus under

sea& 6e that as it ma$, the administration made it o'en, inciting

/r& Cook to go into forti!cation mode to draft a reaction, as

indicated "$ indi*iduas conscious of the e#aminations, who

taked on state of o"scurit$& The outcome was the etter that /r&

Cook marked on Tuesda$, where he contended that it set a

7ha2ardous 'oint of reference7 for an organi2ation to "e

com'eed to construct a''aratuses for the administration that

de"iitate securit$&

7Trading o; the securit$ of our own data can e*entua$ 'ut our

own we"eing at danger,7 he com'osed& 7That is the reason

encr$'tion has turned out to "e so *ita to e*er$ one of us&7 A

ong wa$ from throwing in the towe from the "atte, /r& Cook has

tod 'artners that regardess he remains "$ the organi2ation-s

ongstanding arrangements to scram"e e*er$thing 'ut awa$ on

A''e-s hea' gadgets, administrations and in the coud, where the

heft of information is sti 'ut awa$ decoded& 7On the o; chance

that $ou 'ut an$ worth on common freedoms, $ou don-t do what

aw authori2ation is asking,7 /r& Cook has said&


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