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Soli said:

If a civilian or gov't wants to find a security hole in the code and then exploit it legally, go right ahead, but to have a private company build you a backdoor option into a every device they make is just too ridiculous to imagine.

Its not ridiculous and there are plenty of precedents in a whole bunch of 'private' industries including telecommunications.  That is why apple will lose.  I remember when the Swiss when faced with massive international pressure to open banking records to court orders complained "This will cause worldwide chaos and could destroy the Swiss banking industry".  it did not happen.

All Apple is doing is crying wolf.  They are using this as a brand and marketing lever. That is all. Their fear mongering is kind of a laugh.  You do not have this issue with Android phones (of which there are many more worldwide) and civilization has not ended.

Tim Cook is not as smart or savy as he makes out.  Bill Gates is proving to be wise....and Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocritical moron.  Zuck backing apple when his company is one of the worst examples of privacy invasion the world has ever seen.