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Schneier on Security: iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars

www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/iphone_encrypti_1.html

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Ah, but that's the thing: You can't build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through. Encryption protects against cybercriminals, industrial competitors, the Chinese secret police and the FBI. You're either vulnerable to eavesdropping by any of them, or you're secure from eavesdropping from all of them.