I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the government trying to force Apple to decrypt the cell phone of the San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
Apple responded yesterday. Here's an interesting dive into their response.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...lsehoods.shtml
There are many reasons why this is a futile reach for the government. First of all, this wouldn't be just a one off request. Anyone who has kids knows that if you give into one kid, you'll get 20 more requests. Second of all, this sort of stuff is like whack a mole: as soon as you force Apple to do it, people will just go to another provider of the technology. You can't shut them all down because eventually people will end up going with some Russian technology the government can't control.
Second, they seem to forget that if the encryption is weakened for everyone, that also
includes the phones of the government employees themselves. If you want to keep your secrets safe, then you'll need to deal with other people keeping their secrets safe.