On: Thomas Jefferson and Apple versus the FBI

[harryh]

Putting your hands above your head can be speech:

http://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imageca...

But law enforcement can still tell you to "Stop and put your hands above your head!"

The former is the communication of an idea. The latter is just a physical movement. Even though it's the exact same action.

[Zigurd → harryh]

So, under an All Writs order to produce a tool for the FBI, code becomes something like a "physical movement?"

Have you got an answer to what compelled coding is, other than compelled speech?

[harryh → Zigurd]

Commenting out some security code and recompiling isn't the communication of an idea. It's just the rote performance of a task.

Like raising your hands above your head when the cop tells you to.