Apple's stand against the Feds

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Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

No one elected the FBI. Nobody elected the government bureaucracy that actually runs everything. The elected officials in Congress are split on this. Many see the danger of allowing an agency a backdoor into everyone's private lives, as well as the damage to internet security that will result.

There is no way this backdoor can be protected. Consider this - The Chinese government has stolen all the technical data for every nuclear weapon design the US has. Can something be more sensitive, or more guarded than nuclear weapons designs? Yet, the US government lost control of the information. And, the US government lost control of the information on most of its security clearance holders to China hacking last summer.

Once a back door is built, can anyone reasonably expect that such a powerful tool can be protected from foreign governments, or worse, criminal and terrorist regimes? Civil liberties argument aside, do we really need the information on this phone so badly that we are willing to sacrifice security on hundreds of millions of other devices? Why would any sane person be willing to take that risk?

Again well said Abdullah! I have been following this thread closely and your points not only make the most sense to me but you have a clear grasp on the issue at hand.