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by Buffout 1259 days ago

    Whenever Apple upgrades it's privacy scheme it seems the government becomes quite concerned requesting backdoors and such. However we have had apps like Signal and WhatsApp and a plethora of others with e2e for years.
link on government requesting backdoor?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI-Apple_encryption_dispute

Part of it is the time that the FBI wanted Apple to create custom firmware to allow unlimited attempts to enter a PIN number.