The title of this post is misleading. To bypass something means to work around it, not to already be past it. If your machine is not hacked, and is encrypted, a

The title of this post is misleading. To bypass something means to work around it, not to already be past it. If your machine is not hacked, and is encrypted, and you don't run any unsafe binaries, then the FBI cannot "bypass" your encryption. I understand the claim that almost all standard operating systems are pre-hacked. I could believe this for Windows, and for any system running software that does not have publicly visible source, but I do not believe this is true for carefully built linux systems. Additionally, even if your system IS rooted, I believe it is possible to run a secure virtual machine on it. ( note an encrypted keyboard would need to be used to prevent keylogging in the host OS ) As others here have stated, I think this article is mostly FUD. It could have been shorted to the single sentence "Your encryption is irrelevant if the software on your box can be hacked while it is running."