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Riversong said:

Why would anyone expect an "Apple insider" to say anything different.

As a lifelong opponent of government overreach, I've been following this debate and found Apple's statements to be disingenuous and self-serving, NOT those of the FBI.

Well, with warriors like you against government overreach we must be losing the war, The government and the FBI in particular cannot be trusted beyond a certain point. All you have to do is look up the COINTELPRO program of the 1950's and 60's where the FBI turned against the civilian population using harrassment by police, the IRS, hate mongering, psychological warfare - virtually anything at their disposal to wreck the lives of people like MLK who dared challenge the powers that be. Secondly, what makes you think that even if they caught something on this fishing trip, they would actually be competent enough to use it intelligently to preempt some sort of criminality. They had information that could have prevented 9/11, about people training to fly airplanes but not take of or land, they had information about the Tsarnev brothers of the Boston Marathon bombing and did nothing with it. So you're backing this fishing attempt, which is what Comey is actually framing it as, as he has stated they don't know if they'll get anything useful of the phone or not. It's obvious to many that this is about setting a precedent to make Apple and any other high tech vendor circumvent encryption at the FBI's and apparently any other governmental agency's beck and call. I think based on the historical narrative no good can come of allowing this "backdoor" to be opened. And it's not just a software backdoor, its a legal one as well.