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> After this, who in the public do you think will sign up to use the products Apple admits has been weakened by government? Nearly all of the people who would

> After this, who in the public do you think will sign up to use the products Apple admits has been weakened by government? Nearly all of the people who would have otherwise bought those products.

studentrob 11y ago
Perhaps. Either way my larger concern is the message being sent to law enforcement by the higher ups. I mentioned this in another comment. Plus the fact that terrorists will be the first to use other encryption tech. So, yeah, it is a waste of time and the reason can only be that our higher ups are misinformed. I don't see any good reason they would know all this and lie about it. So they can catch a few common criminals? So they can fail at catching the smart terrorists? It doesn't add up.
yaur 11y ago
While that's undoubtedly true domestically, I have to belive that openly requiring a backdoor is going to hurt Apple and the rest of the US tech sector in the rest of the world.
- 794CD01 11y ago
  Why is that? Other countries want their own law enforcement to be able to break the encryption used in their countries just as badly as the US does. That's close to 95% of the reason Blackberry still exists.