In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.
Tim CookI'm not targeting government. I'm not saying hey, I'm closing it because I don't want to give you any data. I'm saying that to protect out customers, we have to encrypt. And a side affect of that is, I don't have the data.
Tim CookIf I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.
Tim CookThe reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.
Tim Cook