The funny thing about the FBI and tech writers accusing Apple of refusing to hack the iPhone as a "marketing strategy" is that siding with terrorists is a bad strategy. Apple is not doing that, of course, but to understand how the All Writs Act and custom firmware impact the security and privacy of everyone in the world you have to look past four headlines that say APPLE REFUSES TO UNLOCK TERROR PHONE. Apple’s narrative may be no match for the terrorism debate, which warps everything in its path until it is a fearful distortion of reality.
The Pew Research Center interviewed 1,002 adults over the weekend and found that 51 percent of them believed Apple should unlock the iPhone for the FBI, while only 38 percent believed Apple should not...
via The Verge
