@si3tech I’m not so sure. I mean, if I learned everything I know about computers and cryptography from movies, I could see it. But I see enough missing there to consider that article spin. Nearsighted people can’t see more than one little detail; in this case, one terrorist’s phone blinds many to the real issues.
Of course, Apple’s paranoia over trade secrets makes it easy to paint them as selfish, as if having ten times the profit margins of their competitors didn’t already do that.
Look up “Chilling effect”.
Also, if Apple loses here, then the rest of the world will have more security than we even could while those who use crypto for nefarious purposes will just get their encryption elsewhere. All downside, no benefit.
We have nothing to gain! All that can be accomplished is disrupting commerce and banking, forfeiting our rights, and handing power to government. And yet those who want smaller, less intrusive government want to hand government the power to intrude while simultaneously making us more vulnerable to other threats.
Things like this make me think IQ tests should be required before one is granted voting rights…