“What
makes it even more complicated is that we also want strong encryption
is because part of us preventing terrorism or preventing people from
disrupting the financial system or our air traffic control system or a
whole other set of systems that are increasingly digitized is that
hackers, state or non-stage, can’t get in there and mess them up.”
“So
now we have two values that we say are important. And the question we
now have to ask technologically is if it is possible to make an
impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that
there is no key, there is no door at all. Then how do we apprehend the
child pornographer? how do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot? What
mechanisms do we have available to do even simple things like tax
enforcement? If in fact you can't crack that all, if the government
can't get in, then everybody is walking around with a Swiss Bank account
in their pocket. There has to be some concession to the need to be able
to get into that information somehow.”
事件有趣的是,美國研究機構Pew
Research
Center的民意調查中,有51%的美國民眾認為蘋果應該解鎖iPhone以協助FBI的調查行動,只有38%認為蘋果必須不應協助解鎖iPhone。民眾
看法明顯是以國家安全為出發點,多少都聯想到恐怖襲擊對他們的威脅。這可能反影人們對自己的私隱欠缺認知。
筆者後來把石沉大海的投稿,分別在「新世代的經濟解碼」的系列(2)和系列(9)的後記在blog寫出了我的想法,尤其「後記」以很大篇幅寫了我對美國獨立革命當中本土主義如何自我膨脹作出分析。而事實上香港的問題複雜到不是一個簡單「樓價」、「貧富懸殊」、「基本法23條」、「外國勢力」、「梁振英」便可以解釋,正如「HK01」的作者寫道:「梁振英再本事也無法製造所有問題」,社會上很多賢達提出很多對事件的看法,我相信大家都在瞎子摸象,問題複雜既之然,也沒有one
solution for all。