Apple refused to help open iphone owned by terrorist shooter.

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RichA wrote:

The encryption genie has been out of the bottle for decades. If the
phones are made "less secure", then terrorists and others will simply
find other ways to encrypt their data and messages in breakproof fashion
by installing their own apps. Indeed, they'd leave intricate false
trails of data in their phones that could be generated by clever algorithms.

Let me repeat that....

encrcdsa

Completely, utterly moot point. They needed THAT phone opened, not some future phone.

not moot at all.

you can't legislate math.

if phones have back doors, the bad guys won't use them.

meanwhile, the entire rest of the world will have no security
whatsoever due to a bunch of ignorant dumb**** politicians.

this is the level of stupidity:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...turnbull-says-
laws-australia-trump-laws-mathematics/
"Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of
that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only
law*that applies in Australia is the law of Australia," he said when
asked how the proposals would stop terrorists and criminals moving
to encryption software not controlled by major tech companies.