The wide-ranging interview captures Cook's discomfort with how his company has been treated by the Department of Justice.
Following are some interesting excerpts from the interview:
The thing that is different to me about Messages versus your banking institution is, the part of you doing business with the bank, they need to record what you deposited, what your withdrawals are, what your checks that have cleared.
So they need all of this information.
That content they need to possess, because they report it back to you.
That's the business they're in.
Take the message.
My business is not reading your messages.
I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that.
I don't want to read your private stuff. So I'm just the guy toting your mail over.
That's what I'm doing.
So if I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.
Law enforcement should not be whining about iPhones; it should be rolling around in all the other free information that criminals and terrorists are spewing through social networks and Nest thermostats, surveillance cameras and Hello Barbies.
Going dark -- this is a crock.
No one's going dark.
An anonymous reader cites a post by Susan Crawford, Harvard Law Professor and former Obama Special Assistant:
From her column at Backchannel, "Barack Obama has a fine legal mind.
But he may not have been using it when he talked about encryption last week.
The problem for the president is that when it comes to the specific battle going on right now between Apple and the FBI, the law is clear:
twenty years ago, Congress passed a statute, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) that does not allow the government to tell manufacturers how to design or configure a phone or software used by that phone -- including security software used by that phone.
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