TidBITS:
I fully understand the drive and motivations the law enforcement community has to maintain access to our devices.
But law enforcement needs to understand that technology companies aren’t trying to protect the bad guys, but stop them. That until iOS 8, I had to walk my clients through the iOS security loopholes that made it difficult to protect corporate and personal data. That such back doors are already used to suppress free speech throughout the world, sometimes fatally. That without this encryption, we are all less secure.
As always, I like reading Rich Mogull’s take on these kinds of security issues.
The police can go back to old fashioned crime stopping, where you actually had to work to get an arrest.
Apple etc are trying to stop a different kind of criminal. One that the police has a harder time dealing with because there are not other methods