Iphone owners can....or should......feel proud that the Apple CEO is taking on the FBI

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Bank records, you ask the bank. Phone records, you ask the phone company.

In this case, they are asking the phone maker to give them something the maker does not have, and does not have for a good reason.

If the Gov. wants to make its own code for hacking into an phone, that is one thing.
But here, the Gov. wants company which built the phone to create and give away a code which then can be used on any other customer's phone in the future,
thus ruining a major design pitch that a customer bought the phone for...privacy.

Usually in these cases the FBI would try to co-erce the phone owner into giving up the password.
but in this case, the owner is ded.


The letter really covers it well, which is why I included the link.