> How to resolve this? A police “back door” for all smartphones is undesirable — a back door can and will be exploited by bad guys, too. However, with all their

> How to resolve this? A police “back door” for all smartphones is undesirable — a back door can and will be exploited by bad guys, too. However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant. I don't get it. What's the difference between a "backdoor" and a "golden key" other than that one sounds less threatening than the other? It's seriously clear that WaPo simply has no idea what they're even talking about. Did they not have a Software Engineer on hand they could run this past?