Apple CEO's defense of encryption shattered by Sen. Tom Cotton
Politicio: Sen. Tom Cotton on Monday slammed Apple CEO Tim Cook over his defense of encryption on "60 Minutes" and warned that major tech companies risk becoming havens for “child pornographers, drug traffickers and terrorists alike.” In the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., top law enforcement officials including FBI Director James Comey have complained about the lack of “backdoors” that would help the government decipher private communications. But Cook, during an interview that aired Sunday night, repeated his industry’s vocal defense of encryption, stressing any such backdoor in tech products would create serious privacy and security vulnerabilities that ”bad guys" could also exploit. Cook added that Apple responds to proper government warrants. But messages sent over the company's iMessage service are encrypted and stored on the user's device, and Apple can't access the data — in other words, according to the CEO, ...