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by red-iron-pine 1013 days ago
> I don't understand. In the case of a national security incident, the US gov/military would have popular apps cracked open ASAP.

Except that didn't happen. For example, there was a terrorisim-related mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, and they got the shooters phone.

Apple refused to decrypt it.

The Feds later bought a 0-day off of a foreign firm, thought to be Israeli or maybe Australian, and got into that way, but Apple stood their ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...