The real issue is mainly being missed by most people. It’s not America’s security, it’s everyone’s security, and the precedent this is currently setting even if it fails in the US is that it will further embolden other countries to request companies to defeat security and encryption. The UK, China, South Korea and other major powers are all currently lobbying for increased and broad surveillance power, including weak encryption. However if the US government were successful in getting their wish you can hammer a nail in the coffin of privacy everywhere in the world. For example: What’s to stop China from booting Apple from the country if they refused to covertly or overtly put in a backdoor in their OS in the Chinese market?
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