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> Apple, knowing that it is a private company completely and utterly incapable of resisting serious government demands (ie GCBD in China) should never have developed this capability to begin with.

You are basically arguing that an iphone be incablable of doing any function at all.

Dont want the government demanding the sent/recieved data - no data sending and recieving funcitons.

Dont want the government demanding phone call intercepts - no phone call functionality.

Dont want the government demanding the contents of the screen - no screen.

The pandoras box was opened the day someone inseted a radio chip and microphone into a device. It has been open for a very long time, this is not the moment it suddenly opened.




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