[junto]

This is spot on, and this is why bulk surveillance is so dangerous. It would not surprise me to know that the FBI has already started following/spying, and tasked the NSA to electronically monitor key Apple representatives and their lawyers. If they can find anything shady, they can then use that of individuals to try and use that as leverage.

The key point here is that if the USG find a way to force Apple and Apple engineers to do this work then the government, by default, they must have too much power.

[da1]

> If they can find anything shady

This is always better but they don't even need to find it. That's just a bonus.

They can just fabricate it. Assange is still in effective house arrest because someone apparently was a victim of "sex by surprise".

[jacobush]

Oh please. He did something wrong under Swedish law. That's pretty obvious. Of course he is still there in his little room because of dirty politics. I am sure he would have taken a fine or whatever in Sweden if he were not afraid of being extradited to the US.