Steve, you may be wondering why this poster has grappled onto you like a drowning man. I don't expect you to care, but in the interest of truth and my own reputation (on this site and its predecessors for more than 20 years) I want to point out that this dispute and this posters' attacks have gone on across numerous threads.
His venom has no basis in fact, or in the validity of an argument; he's been caught in several lies, and has run from and refuses to acknowledge his real motivation in all of this.
By his own words, he is obsessed with Tim Cook's sex life, to the point of being completely unhinged. An armchair psychologist might speculate what it is inside a man that drives him to want to destroy another whose behavior he finds so offensive-- perhaps he fears it in himself? I'll leave it to others to speculate on that.
This poster has a vehement desire to ruin Apple, and is willing to take the rest their customers' privacy and liberty down with it, just to satisfy his own lust for... what? Revenge?
Don't believe for a minute that he sees this as a fight for the liberty of citizens, or the right of legitimate government. That's a new dress he put on for this thread. He, by his own admission, thinks this is about destroying (his words) "a faggot CEO".
His words are (among many examples) here and here.
Of course, he doesn't want you to know this.
It's worth considering this when making a judgement about his veracity.
I've been telling him he's on the wrong website. He belongs at DU with this authoritarian tripe-- they live it over there.