Why an Apple victory against the FBI would be a win for all of us

We could argue endlessly over the legal, political and technical fine points of the FBI getting a court order requiring Apple to assist it in cracking open a locked iPhone 5c. That’s not really the point.

True, Apple has cheerfully helped the government look into customers’ data before. No, the FBI isn’t asking for an iPhone backdoor —this time. All Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California really wants is for Apple to provide a one-off, signed iOS image that will enable the FBI to try different iOS 9 passcodes quickly without triggering the iPhone’s auto-erasure feature after 10 failed attempts.

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