Sundar Pichai sides with Tim Cook’s encryption stance on Twitter

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Tim Cook publicly released a letter against the FBI’s request for Apple to create software that would allow a backdoor into iPhones for national security reasons. Needless to say, that letter has sparked a ton of conversation around the encryption debate, and it’s bringing some other big names into the mix.

One of these big names is Google’s current CEO, Sundar Pichai, who tweeted out support in favor of Tim Cook’s anti-backdoor stance. He mirrored Cook’s ideas that enabling any type of workaround for an encrypted device would put user security at risk, and that Google, like Apple, works with law enforcement to hand over data when legally required. However, the FBI asking for a backdoor to completely bypass a smartphone’s encryption is a completely separate issue, and ignores the fundamental rule of device encryption that only the user should be able to access the device.

Apple and Google aren’t the first companies to have to deal with the US government trying to access encrypted information, and they certainly won’t be the last. But between those two companies, as well as other public favorites like Microsoft and Facebook, the US government will definitely struggle to get the majority of the population to go against the grain of their favorite tech manufacturers and social media sites.

source: Sundar Pichai (Twitter) 2, 3, 4, 5

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