This. A few weeks ago Obama came in on the side of David Cameron and the FBI in support of outlawing strong encryption: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/

This. A few weeks ago Obama came in on the side of David Cameron and the FBI in support of outlawing strong encryption: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-cameron-in-encryption-fight/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-came... After yesterday's event he appeared to back off of that position: http://recode.net/2015/02/13/obama-theres-no-scenario-in-which-we-dont-want-really-strong-encryption/ http://recode.net/2015/02/13/obama-theres-no-scenario-in-whi... Should be interesting to see how it all plays out - its an odd situation when we're turning to Apple, Google and Facebook to defend our information privacy.