“Weakening encryption or taking it away harms good people who are using it for the right reason.” “Let me be crystal clear,” Apple CEO Tim Cook countered. Google, Facebook, and many more have adopted strong encryption by default in their products, better protecting users from outside threats ranging from criminal hackers to eavesdropping governments.įBI Director James Comey has criticized the choices of those tech companies for the past year, arguing that encryption places users “beyond the law.”
A growing list of major tech firms have since hopped on the encryption bandwagon. Tor knows we can’t ignore all the iOS 9 users in the world.”īy offering strong encryption by default on their iPhones last year, Apple placed itself in the center of a political storm over the rising popularity of encryption around the world. “We just started to work on it and think about it. “There are a bunch of pieces in the works,” Tor developer and Guardian Project leader Nathan Freitas told the Daily Dot. Tor knows we can’t ignore all the iOS 9 users in the world.”
Thanks in large part to new features introduced in last month’s release of iOS 9, iPhone and iPad users may finally be getting their hands on the most powerful Tor apps ever available for Apple’s mobile devices. While presidential candidates, law-enforcement officials, and members of Congress debate the future of encryption on your smartphone, Apple’s iOS 9 is set to receive a major privacy upgrade.Ī group of privacy-advocate hackers are now in early stages of bringing free, system-wide Tor anonymity apps to the Apple App Store for the first time, the Daily Dot has learned.
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