Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’ (nytimes.com)

And I call the Justice Department's insistence on getting unfettered access to all communications criminal.

i'm inclined to agree with the justice department here. we need a compromise before govt just takes over and we have a technologically ill-advised government body legally mandating a bad solution (ie crypto of a certain strength becomes illegal for U.S. companies). I think similar to what mike rogers proposed, a two key system, is an acceptable compromise. However, instead of the govt having the other key (and reasonably every other government that might want it, which is the primary problem with this system), the manufacturer instead is required to maintain the key. Then only under legal coercion of servicing a warrant would they decrypt a message. The manufacture has a fiscal responsibility of maintaining their key, as customers would otherwise not buy their products. While the manufacturer is not given the undo burden of recording every message (it is presumed law enforcement has this, but needs to decrypt it). This system gives people access to simple security, while allowing legal action to proceed as it otherwise has prior to widely available encryption. In addition other countries can seek similar legal action, keeping with the laws of their respective countries.

It's going to happen, so lets not fumble like we usually do with progressive shit, and leave it up to the idiots in congress to stumble through an unworkable solution to. Which means, instead of companies playing hardball and just denying requests (basically for PR purposes), they instead proactively design some kind of a compromise system.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11135932

The All Writs Act requires that the request NOT be a burden to the company that the request is being sent to. Isn't it a burden to affect Apple's marketing strategy?