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>The problem is, Apple has to fight this now because once they've done this once, they're in a losing position when the government wants it done 800 more times.

Since each of those 800 times will used after court issued a legal warrant, that is actually good.



Suffice to say, we appear to be operating off of entirely incompatible definitions of "good"


Which countries will be issuing these good warrants? All of them?


All except the bad ones. They'll be prohibited by statute from taking advantage of any of this.


That is until they for torture someone to get around it.




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