Perhaps a privacy advocate should be wondering about the 'sniff test' of the speech. What does “Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers

Perhaps a privacy advocate should be wondering about the 'sniff test' of the speech. What does “Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security” mean? That there's a serious argument that less privacy is more security? Aren't they functionally the same thing in this context - 'security' here is about maintaining privacy. It's also a bit rich that Cook is talking about other entities gobbling up your data for themselves, when Apple is the epitome of the 'walled garden'. Apparently being in control of your own information is only what Apple wants if it's concomitant with their control of your information. Cook isn't being morally upstanding here. He's just reframing his company's position to make the other guy look bad. It's the traditional pattern of hide your weaknesses and expose those of your competition.