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NinjaMan said:

So Apple will flag the emails and pass along to authorities but will they unlock the savage's phone for authorities in an effort to uncover a broader distribution ring?

Unlocking a phone requires a backdoor which Apple refuses to do.  Apple is assisting law enforcement, but not at the expense of product security.

Email isn’t a very secure method of communication by default.  Adding security (encryption) causes complications.  For example protonmail uses openPGP to encrypt emails in transit.  They also encrypt the data at rest.  The issues include the inability to encrypt the header (for the openPGP standard).  Also, having your emails encrypted makes indexing your mailbox difficult which means limited search functionality.  The fact that headers aren’t encrypted means law enforcement can still get a lot of information or at least leads.  

Bottom line, users have options if increased security is necessary.  But, law enforcement tries to suggest there’s easy answers to very complex problems to get what they want.

My stance is an unwillingness to sacrifice the security of everyone, to make it easier to put a few people behind bars.  In most cases, they’ll be caught and convicted anyways with a bit of old fashioned police work.

The developers response is you can opt-out, control what data is collected, and delete stored data.

The problem is most users don’t realize they are the product.

Bottom line, free ain’t free.  If you have a “free” account somewhere, you are the product.

The FBI lacks credibility.  They’ve become a political tool.  

And these are Philips... imagine if you bought those Chinese knock-offs.

I’m making assumptions about the lawsuit based on users comments...

But, if the case is really about 2 things patents & antitrust violations...

The judge needs to split this up.  A patent violation is fairly easy to rule on.  An antitrust violation argument needs to be part of the DOJ investigation.  Until the DOJ does there part, finishing investigating the Apple App Store, the case isn’t going to go anywhere.

The reason Blix is trying to combine them is because of a money grab.  Their patent if upheld isn’t worth that much...

If the DOJ concludes the Apple App Store is a violation, Apple is going to be fined an maybe be required to restructure that part of the business.  Blix and everyone else won’t get anything...