> companies like Apple(and many others) have been successful - or at least appeared to be - at denying such requests by saying that there is no technical way to

> companies like Apple(and many others) have been successful - or at least appeared to be - at denying such requests by saying that there is no technical way to break the encryption built into their devices and communication. This is incorrect. Last time it went to court, Apple used very different arguments. > Now, there would be a way - once it's built it's built, there is no going back. Then why is the British government not asking for the system Apple designed? They are asking for something far more intrusive. Apple’s system is irrelevant to that.