re: #208 goddamnedfrank

I’d feel a lot more respect for supporters of the government’s position here if they didn’t deploy such glib, dismissive and poorly thought through arguments. At the very least I expect some indication that this situation isn’t a simplistic monochromatic struggle between the forces of good and evil.

I’m totally opposed to forcing Apple to break the lock on iPhones. If they devised a way around their security, it wouldn’t be limited to one device, it would basically be throwing the gates wide open on everything. I see this as a stealth attempt by the FBI to establish a precedent that would eventually end up in the kind of backdoor system they’ve been pushing hard to get, into all manufacturers’ devices.

Ultimately, letting the government have that kind of access makes all of us less secure, not more secure. The government is infamously terrible at security itself, and I don’t believe they should be trusted with that kind of power.