Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Agrees With Apple, Feels Encryption Backdoors Are A Bad Idea

Apple has been known to be one of the most secure operating systems there is, primarily due to the fact that they¡¯re literally unbreachable. Previous cases have shed light on this very fact -- making people have faith in the brand for safeguarding their data.

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However, in a case of law and order when justice needs to be served and the lock on a phone stands in between, it can put law enforcement in a complicated situation. However, Satya Nadella is on Apple¡¯s side for this one.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, commented about the encryption backdoor for law enforcement -- a sort of secret access for law enforcement to breach into the device to gain access to the data -- in a recent press conference, stating, ¡°I do think backdoors are a terrible idea, that is not the way to go about this. We¡¯ve always said we care about these two things: privacy and public safety. We need some legal and technical solution in our democracy to have both of those be priorities.¡±

Post the 2016 San Bernardino incident the new case that is making the FBI desperate to gain access to an iPhone is on the Pensacola Shooting case committed by a Saudi National undergoing flight training at the US Naval base. Two iPhones were found linked to the attacker and are completely inaccessible by the investigators.

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Nadella was supportive of the fact that Apple or another tech brand for that matter, shouldn¡¯t have a special tool for law enforcement to be used in order to gain access to the device, even he wouldn¡¯t do so.

He said, ¡°We can¡¯t take hard positions on all sides... [but if they¡¯re] asking me for a backdoor, I¡¯ll say no. My hope is that in our democracy these are the things that arrive at legislative solutions.¡±