Customer Letter - Apple

Good for Apple. There have been way too many cases of the government secretly abusing surveillance laws already. There are tradeoffs with privacy and security. But sometimes that has to tilt towards privacy. In an odd way it reminds me of the 2a arguement about needing guns to fight government tyranny. Imagine if the government orderyed a gun manufacturer to create a device that could disable any gun made remotely. The government claims they would only use it on bad guys guns. and promised no bad guys would ever figure out how to build one themselves. No one would go for that.

Creating a hack to the iphone is the same attempt, but seeks to disable our privacy rights rather than our guns. Except that once built, it is almost guaranteed that criminal hackers will figure it out and use it against everybody.

Looks like the market isn't mad about it.

I suppose the question is can a private company such as Apple be forced to follow rules that the government wants them to?