By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Apple is worried the FBI could begin spying on people using an iPhone’s to camera or microphone.
Eddie Cue, the company’s online-services boss, said Apple’s fight with the FBI is about more than opening a phone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers.
“When they can get us to create a new system to do new things, where will it stop?” Cue said in a Spanish-language interview broadcast on Univision on Wednesday, warning of a slippery slope.
“For example, one day [the FBI] may want us to open your phone’s camera, microphone. Those are things we can’t do now. But if they can force us to do that, I think that’s very bad,” Cue said, according to a translation provided by Apple and reported by Business Insider.
At issue is the so-called back door that the FBI wants access to.
“What they want is to give them a key to the back door of your house, and we don’t have the key. Since we don’t have the key, they want us to change the lock,” Cue said.
