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Edited: Ignore my post below...I read a bit more and I see at least a bit more of what was asked for. It does sound like anything done to get at this one phone could then be used for others.

Has there actually been anyone from the FBI acknowledge that they asked for a back door to all iphones? The only place I've seen that is in the letter from cook. The one interview I watched with an FBI spokesman was that he didn't want any back door and for all he cared, they could just print the contents of that one phone on paper and give it to him.

I don't trust the government but I don't trust what cook is saying either. I assume he can be twisting it a bit to make a compelling public statement to garner a public outcry, just like politicians do. Maybe the FBI did demand the backdoor and I just have not seen it yet. I've only seen Cook make that claim so far.

Smokey wrote:How is the government able to compel somebody to do labor? This thing does not exist yet and would take an engineer some time to create. Can the government force me to dig a ditch or write a poem?

His password is probably 1234 anyways.

ok, I couldn't resist. yes! At least if history can be repeated. Think of Vietnam era. We had the draft. Young men were drafter and I would venture to say many were compelled to dig some deep ditches and holes.

There are probably also a bunch of folks in prisons that have been compelled to do some digging as well.

I know that's a bit different but I couldn't resist.