Reply to post: @tom dial

Confused as to WTF is happening with Apple, the FBI and a killer's iPhone? Let's fix that

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@tom dial

Sure, a court order allows them to enter your house and search it. Let's say they're looking for the books for your illegal gambling business, and they find them but all the numbers are written in a secret code only you understand. They are powerless to force you to tell them your secret code that would allow them to make sense of it.

What the FBI is trying to do would be immediately thrown out of every court in the land if it was about forcing someone to reveal the secret code they've written on papers found via a properly executed search warrant. Let's hope the courts are smart enough to see the parallel, instead of bowing to the no doubt heavy pressure the Obama administration (and all the republican candidates, and Hillary) will be putting on them to "do the right thing for the families of San Bernadino".

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