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As in another post in this thread, I'm not really directly considering the current FBI/Apple situation but jumping ahead to the future where, now, due heavily to the current FBI/Apple situation, I anticipate very broad, greatly increased interest in encryption people will want really strong encryption, totally independent of any big companies, totally free of any chances of back doors, etc. So, they will return to simple, open source, command line software, run on an old computer, never connected to a network, that puts out just dirt simple base 64 that move to, say, an iPhone via some, whatever, diskette reader (?) connected via USB. People are going to quit just fooling around, roll back to RSA, and trust a product of two totally obscure prime numbers, oops, really long prime numbers.

Here the FBI has gone a long way to make their job impossible soon and to have Apple make a new iPhone that they solidly claim they just cannot break to replace all the ones they have sold so far.




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