I enjoyed the article's major theme of encryption as math - but the dedication of the second & third paragraphs to disparaging analogies was distracting. Educa

I enjoyed the article's major theme of encryption as math - but the dedication of the second & third paragraphs to disparaging analogies was distracting. Educating HN and SV on this topic is throwing so many logs on the fire - I literally haven't met anybody in tech that doesn't strongly support Apple / encryption. On the other hand analogies - like "locks, doors, and burritos" - are the only chance we have to sway the POPULAR opinion in this country which currently sits 52% in favor of handing the govt the keys. (2) And Donald Trump has recently shown with great effect what speaking like / explaining thing simply (at a 3rd grade level in fact) can do to reach Americans. (3) And, as for "Illegal Math" in general, unfortunately there's prior art in this department as well ;-) (4) (5) (1) http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/02/2-22-2016-iPhone-release.pdf http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/02/2-22-2016-iPhone-r... (2) http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/02/2-22-2016-iPhone-release.pdf http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/02/2-22-2016-iPhone-r... (3) http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/donald-trump-talks-like-a-third-grader-121340 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/donald-trump-... (4) http://everything2.com/title/Copyrighting%2520a%2520number http://everything2.com/title/Copyrighting%2520a%2520number (5) http://mathbric.blogspot.com/2009/01/just-how-small-is-smallest-illegal_05.html http://mathbric.blogspot.com/2009/01/just-how-small-is-small...