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cb1000rider wrote:
Why do I care, if I have nothing to hide? Because I think the government should respect the constitution, even if that means we live with greater threats in our lives.

Well, greater threats means more deaths, and more deaths mean more Democrat voters.... or is that what you meant by "greater threats" in the first place?

Realistically, one of the prime responsibilities we expect of government is supressing violence, and if violence starts making people afraid, they complain to their Congressmen to "do something." That's when the values of the Constitution is at risk.

The choice is between Apple being forced, by whatever process, to furnish the software being demanded, so the FBI can access the info as they wish, and creating a back door, leaving all other phones at risk with respect to privacy.

The other choice, it seems to me, is that Apple doesn't have to, or can't, and Apple thereafter becomes the de facto phone/computer system for criminals and terrorists world wide since it is now certain that the FBI, and presumably anyone else, can't access it.