Apple CEO Tim Cook stood firm on his stance on encryption while attending Utah Tech Tour, a trade and advocacy group which represents 5000 and more lif-sciences and technology companies across the state.
According to Salt Lake Tribune, Tim Cook said, “We believe the only way to protect both your safety and privacy from a cyber attack is to encrypt. Encryption is inherently great. And we would not be a safe society without it.”
Encryption is an algorithm that scrambles your communication and data unreadable except to those with the right, correct key.
Apple has fought with the U.S. government in court cases on whether the FBI of the state can force the company to write back door codes to break its iPhone encryption in a criminal investigation. The case was resolved without the conclusive result to the legal question that whether the government holds this authority.
