They did go after Apple, remember the FBI vs. Apple court cases about forcing Apple to backdoor the entire OS to get to the user's data: https://en.wikipedia.or

They did go after Apple, remember the FBI vs. Apple court cases about forcing Apple to backdoor the entire OS to get to the user's data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... As for Facebook, it is more likely because Facebook is in "progress" of enabling E2E and they have more users than Apple right now. It is easier to hit Facebook now than later unlike in the case of Apple that already implemented it from the start; it would go into court litigation for several years and most likely end up in Supreme Court. Barr is just assuming FB will cave in. PS: No, a huge value prop for iMessages is that it's built into iOS and any iPhone user can talk to another iPhone user, not because of E2E. Most users aren't aware of what E2E is.