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information. Fact: No gov't agency has ever been able to protect digital data from being hacked – including the Pentagon and White House. If they get an "encryption key", so will any serious hacker out there. They always do. And by setting a precedent, expect other governments in other countries to demand the exact same thing for any reason they feel like.

To give government law enforcement agencies whatever they want with no legal protection for individual personal privacy is by definition a police state.

investigation," Cook wrote. "In the wrong hands, this software -- which does not exist today -- would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession."

The FBI couldn't protect the country against 911 despite the fact that the attackers were "under survellance". The result after that historic failure are new laws that for the first time in American history circumvent 'habeus corpus'. And we now all live in a country where all citizens' have their personal information and communications surveilled 24/7. With cameras watching us on every street corner. Where we have to take our shoes and belts off and be subject to bodily search just to fly home for the holidays. And yet where they cannot protect us from identity theft, phone fraud or having our personal data stolen from hackers in other countries. 

If we give everything gov't law enforcement agencies want, America will be by definition a surveillance police state. Where companies like Apple are legally forced to work for them. Rather than protect the privacy of their customers. This "overreach" by the FBI and their political cronies in Washington is going to permanently alter this country - beyond recognizability as we lose more and more of our rights - if leaders like Tim Cook don't stand up to them.

administration continues to show its incompetence. And I voted for him as I believed he would champion individual rights and reverse the draconian policies enacted by the even greater incompetence of the previous Bush administration. 

Obama did not limit the NSA, he expanded their powers while attempting to incarcerate true defenders of the constitution like Eric Snowden. 

To make matters worse, there's no one in the upcoming election who will attempt to reign in the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. Since both the Democratic elites and Republican elites have an unusually excessive degree of fear over the possibility of a Trump presidency, he will get my vote. If the country goes down, Trump will ensure that all of the politicians and wealthy elites go down too.  

Mutually assured destruction. Like in the Cold War. Maybe only then will a real discussion take place and the country move forward rationally. 

The current circus surrounding the iPhone encryption promoted by Obama has hardened me against the Democratic Party. I won't be voting for Hillary who will just continue the attempt to force Apple to perform the great iPhone hack. Trump probably will too.  But he will use that hack against the congressional members of both parties. He won't hesitate. And it will force congress to pass a law which allows Apple to keep its software secure. And by a large enough margin to ensure that it's veto proof. It might even usher in bipartisanship for the first time in many years. 

Trump gets my vote. Unless Obama does the right thing and calls off the dogs at the FBI. 

he would force Apple to manufacture its hardware in the US instead of looking to overseas labor

"We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers in this country instead of other countries," Trump said

Everyone has the right to say something idiotic occasionally. Apparently Donald Trump is making it a full-time job.