The very first sentence starts with a faulty premise: "Apple has announced that it has designed its new operating system, iOS8, to thwart lawful search warrants

The very first sentence starts with a faulty premise: "Apple has announced that it has designed its new operating system, iOS8, to thwart lawful search warrants" Why couldn't Apple have designed it to remove itself from the burden of having to play fisherman? While it's true that there may have been moral drivers in this design decision, it makes sound business sense as well. You can't betray what you don't know. Which is the ultimate position to take in order to be competitive in a privacy conscious world. Besides, warrants are rubber stamps now (as pointed out here and many places elsewhere) and are by no means the carefully measured moderator of state influence they may have once been.