It would be “dangerous” for Apple to help authorities bypass security on its devices, co-founder Steve Wozniak wrote in response to a Wednesday question on a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” interview.
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“I was brought up in a time when communist Russia under Stalin was thought to be, everybody is spied on, everybody is looked into, every little thing can get you secretly thrown into prison,” Wozniak said. “We had our Bill of Rights. And it’s just dear to me. The Bill of Rights says some bad people won’t do certain bad things because we’re protecting humans to live as humans.
“But there are also other problems,” he added. “Twice in my life I wrote things that could have been viruses. I threw away every bit of source code. I just got a chill inside. These are dangerous, dangerous things, and if some code gets written in an Apple product that lets people in, bad people are going to find their way to it, very likely.”
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Wozniak was writing in response to a user asking about his opinion on the federal government’s attempts to force Apple to write software allowing it to access an iPhone. He expressed similar concerns this month, calling the effort “just wrong.”
