Cybersecurity
Feud Opened by Apple-FBI Case Years From Fix, FireEye Chief Says
- Companies are `polarized' over government requests for data
- DeWalt also predicts an increase in cyber ransom attacks
U.S. vs. Apple: New Battles in NY, Massachusetts
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Apple versus the FBI was just the beginning: The debate between privacy and cybersecurity will drag on for years as the government vies with powerful corporations while new forms of hacking attacks arise, according to David DeWalt, chief executive officer of FireEye Inc.
"We now have corporations, for the first time in history, as powerful as the United States," DeWalt said in an interview in Washington. “The Apples, the Googles and the Microsofts of the world have become so big, so powerful, that their cash reserves, their lobbying capability is as great -- if not greater -- than the biggest government in the world."