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Comment: Microsoft just demonstrated why Apple was right to stand up to the FBI

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<p>I wrote an opinion piece predating the San Bernardino shootings on why Apple was right to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/11/17/opinion-apple-encryption/" target="_blank">stand firm on encryption[/url] even in the face of terrorist attacks, and another one afterwards explaining why it <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/02/18/fbi-apple-encryption-master-key/" target="_blank">would be too dangerous[/url] to give the FBI the iPhone <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/02/17/apple-fbi-court-order-method/" target="_blank">master key[/url] they demanded.</p>
<p>My main argument was that something as powerful as a master key to unlock an iPhone would eventually fall into the wrong hands.</p>

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">So soon, the FBI would hold the key. Then other law enforcement agencies. </span>In time, that key would be held in every police precinct house. We would then be trusting more than a <span class="s2">million people</span> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_States#Number_of_police) with access to that key to abide by the rules. Government agencies don’t always have the <span class="s2">best of track-records</span> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker#Criticism) in doing that.</p>

<p>And Microsoft has just proven my point, even with code that was never intended to leave the company’s possession …</p>
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