Thoughtful piece from ThoughtWorks Chairman Roy Singham:

Creating backdoors, even if one agrees in one case with one government, is a Faustian pact for tech firms. Any backdoor creates a vulnerability that would ultimately hand access to users’ security not just to U.S. law enforcement, but to criminals, and to others who would take advantage of reduced user privacy. Therefore, acceding to the pressures of the FBI and NSA undermines not only the rights of all people around the world, but it actually poses grave dangers for dissidents and it creates structural flaws in all of modern commerce. The time has come to call for a global right of all citizens to privacy and security in the new digital age.

And:

Apple’s actions in this case are courageous and principled, and we believe Apple to be on the right side of history.

Nicely put.