When I made a point about Orrin Kerr shilling for the law enforcement agencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

When I made a point about Orrin Kerr shilling for the law enforcement agencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349006 one or two people didn't agree. I guess it is now obvious what that piece was about. The disingeneous dimension to this issue is that smart phones are basically powerful hand held personal computers which make calls and take photos on the side. Less than 1% of their capability is used for for making calls. Orrin Kerr pretends not to understand this. He wouldn't insist that Microsoft, Apple and Linux developers weaken the encryption on regular laptops, desktops or servers for law enforcement to have access to data. Why should he insist on it for smart phones which these days are just as powerful as PCs, the only difference being that people carry them around, make calls and store contact details on them? Steve Job and Apple's desire to have complete control and have access to users information brought this situation about, and in doing so made themselves virtually accessories to whatever crimes people stored on their phones. Now they realize that it made them appear as agents and collaborators with the investigative agencies, they have decided to extricate themselves from that situation leaving them close to being labelled 'pedophile and terrorist facilitators'.