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Ok you are right I missed that. However

Once apple has the keys to the kingdom what is stopping the government making apple give the government such keys ensuring that no warrant is required.

What is stopping users from using software that is ACTUALLY secure.




> what is stopping the government making apple give the government such keys ensuring that no warrant is required

The same thing that's stopping them from silently requiring Apple to include backdoors into every device today.

> What is stopping users from using software that is ACTUALLY secure.

It's the same as with a regular phone line. Users are free to speak in code or use an analog scrambler. Just because a particular interception technique isn't perfect doesn't mean it wouldn't be valuable to law enforcement.




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