That's a part of what I'm saying. Their public strategy of late seems to be calling for things that don't make a whole lot of sense. They don't really need Appl

That's a part of what I'm saying. Their public strategy of late seems to be calling for things that don't make a whole lot of sense. They don't really need Apple's cooperation, and the politicians asking for key escrow are being ridiculous. You can be almost certain that people working at NSA know that. So how did those politicians find these ideas in their platform? Washington is keeping conversations about the NSA in favor of their opponent, and I think they're doing that to avoid debates on things that really matter. The assumption that I'm making is that NSA doesn't really care about Apple not giving them firmware and doesn't really care about key escrow. One possible explanation for why those things don't matter to them is that they're much further on quantum computing than we think. A more boring answer is that they're willing to trade these things in order to satisfy the public.