Well, the push back was a huge part of the skepticism. It just wasn’t plausible that tech companies would lie so strongly and in such detail to protect a govern

Well, the push back was a huge part of the skepticism. It just wasn’t plausible that tech companies would lie so strongly and in such detail to protect a government investigation, especially not Apple after their famous controversies with the FBI. The follow up doesn’t claim to confirm that part of the original, and they did find tech industry people willing to go on the record about this. Speaking for myself, I’m still not gonna just take three letter agencies at their word, but the source article shifted me from “probably false” to “probably true”.