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Precedent applies when you have facts that are fundamentally equivalent. Forcing Apple to hack a particular phone is totally different from forcing them to shi
by marcoperaza 11y ago
Precedent applies when you have facts that are fundamentally equivalent. Forcing Apple to hack a particular phone is totally different from forcing them to ship phones with backdoors.
- mcphage 11y agoSo when the fact is the government has another phone they want decrypted, and the precedent is that if you lean hard on Apple, they will make it easy to brute force, then the result will be another phone unlocked. And another. And another. And then they'll start leaning for something harder. If you think that this has a chance in hell of being an isolated case, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
- marcoperaza 11y ago> So when the fact is the government has another phone they want decrypted, and the precedent is that if you lean hard on Apple, they will make it easy to brute force, then the result will be another phone unlocked. And what's wrong with that? If they get warrants for each phone.