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by Spivak 1375 days ago
Everyone keeps parroting this like it's 1995 but infinite resources doesn't really help you. In the US FBI case they happened to chain a few now patched exploits in the lightning port that did nothing except allow them the ability to brute force the password. Had the password been strong it would have been game over.

Regular, run of the mill encryption you can download at every corner store can withstand attacks from nation states.

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Zero-days are a thing, as well as companies that find them specifically to sell to governments
well, depending on the adversary, the resources required could be trivial.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png