designguybrown

It's strange that this is controversial.
Of course, the government should have access to anything and everyone with 'just cause' and 'due process' - they're elected or appointed or some other reasonably transparent/ hyper-private process -- yes, they're incompetent and slow and lazy, etc -- but so are the majority of apple customers and the world, in general. The very idea that we are allowing a private company to even have an opinion on security as if they have any public obligation or oversight is ludicrous. Private companies care about nothing except money and the visions of its corporate overlords. The penalties that companies and directors face when they abuse trust and undertake massive frauds is nothing - a few years in a cuddly summer camp. Private companies shouldn't have visions or morals or public opinions or be involved in any public matters -- make stuff and sell it - that's it.