According to an article in the LA Times, Apple will oppose a judicial order to help FBI unlock the phone belonging to San Bernardino shooter. This brings up an interesting conundrum. First, the encryption programs currently in use are all but unbreakable with current technology. The method, perhaps RSA, depends on extremely secure mathematical methods for which the amount of time to crack exceeds the capacity all current technology. It can be assumed the terrorists used such technology. (Heck, you can download it. PGP is an example.) We have heard of current terrorists "going dark," which means they are using such technology. All this is well known. The FBI knows it, the NSA knows it, and all security agencies world-wide know it. So why is the Fed going after Apple? Second, why are the Feds coming after Apple? There are only a couple of reasons, one of which they are simply grandstanding a play to reveal they are still looking. Another is that Apply has built
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