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by curun1r 3775 days ago
Apple also has a form of resistance not available to you or I. They don't have to fall on their sword. A sword as big as theirs can be used it to decapitate (or, more aptly, recapitate) the FBI. With a 12-figure bank account, you can get a lot of people elected...people who will be more than willing to replace those in charge at the FBI.

What's more, they don't even have to actually do it, they just need to make the FBI believe that they actually would do it if the FBI presses the issue.
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0942v8653 3775 days ago
Right, but the FBI knows they wouldn't. This whole situation is generating good PR for Apple. Getting people elected that can change things would be a waste of their money because if known, it is very bad PR (the public is generally against lobbying like this) and the good PR created by this "fight" ends immediately.
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curun1r 3774 days ago
Right, I was just suggesting that Apple has better "nuclear" options than Tim Cook going to jail out of principle and Apple going out of business.
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