I sat through the YouTube presentation (which is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw if you hav

I sat through the YouTube presentation (which is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw if you have four hours to spare). In general the discussions were quite well presented, apart from a couple of rabid questioners suggesting that public security trumped any one individuals' right to personal security. I've written up a summary of the hearings at InfoQ here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/apple-fbi-congress http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/apple-fbi-congress The general responses from Apple were that it wouldn't be possible to write this just for one phone; that once the FBiOS was available for one it would be available for any phone. Dr Landon also highlighted the fact that most people now use their phones as part of a two-factor authentication, and that the easiest way to break into a system (such as the IRS leak) is to compromise login credentials. The fear is, therefore, that once pandora's box is opened that the operating system would be installable on any device and thus potentially give access to any state actor to any account simply through device compromise. The entire hearing was very well laid out, though in a few cases Apple's witnesses weren't quite as fluid as the FBI's. The congress members have five days to ask additional questions, after which presumably a report will be made. More information is available at the House page here: http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2016/3/the-encryption-tightrope-balancing-americans-security-and-privacy http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2016/3/the-encryption-t...