You cannot be a little bit pregnant.
Either you are okay with the sacredness of your private papers and possessions, or you are not.
No government should force a person to break into someone else’s private information. Sure the government owned the phone and they were within their rights to break the code themselves.
Just as the Patriot Act was bastardized for other purposes, there is no compelling reason to allow the government access to my private information.
We feel the same way. I view the Patriot Act in the context and the circumstances in which it came to light, and I supported many parts of it, others I had reservations about. I viewed that situation as war.
And I wasn’t naive enough to think that once it had been passed, there wouldn’t be parts that would be abused. Or that it wouldn’t be the camel’s nose in the tent.
But the Patriot Act doesn’t require your personal information to be transparent, which is what many of the critics of Apple’s policy are asking for, whether they realize it or not, and I do have an issue with that.