It establishes a bad precedent. Government abuse of bad precedent is a daily occurrence. Some federal agencies’ whole existence is an abuse of bad precedent. There’s nothing ‘far fetched’ about it.
Apple could break into this one phone, provide the data to the FBI, and give them nothing more. In the past, gov’t had to get a court order requiring a phone company to perform a wire tap, but the phone company performed all the necessary steps and did not give gov’t access to their central office switching equipment.
The article is mixing what is needed from this one phone with requiring Apple to give gov’t the capability of decrypting every iphone, which definitely should not happen.
“It establishes a bad precedent. Government abuse of bad precedent is a daily occurrence. Some federal agencies’ whole existence is an abuse of bad precedent. There’s nothing ‘far fetched’ about it.”
Why do you believe THIS Big Media story as written?