Regardless, the assertion that they are committed to protecting the personal property and 2nd Amendment rights of their customers and preserving their rights is a joke. Even if there’s a valid warrant for law enforcement to search the premises, if there was no backdoor access available the feds would have had to find another way into Hughes’ safe and perhaps he would have had the opportunity to have his attorney challenge the search warrant. It’s not up to Liberty to decide whether or not a warrant being served on one of their customers is valid. If they’re so committed to their customers’ privacy and protecting their fundamental rights, they could at least go through the motions of having their own legal team fight requests for access. Even better, they can ensure that there’s no backdoor access available, period.
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Very good points. We had the 4th Amendment breach a year or two ago with unlocking personal telephones. Whose property is it after all? It should be the guy who bought and owns the property. I don’t know what the outcome was regrading the personal telephones but it would be illustrative.
It sounds like it’s easier to get into a gun safe than it is to get into an iPhone…