Apple co-founder calls federal effort to bypass encryption ‘dangerous’

Published March 17, 2016 8:12pm ET



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.

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