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> As an illustration, if we get reasonable evidence suggesting that someone is growing marijuana in their ranch, we can get a warrant and go inside. There's not too much the owner can do to stop it. However a perfectly encrypted iphone cannot be broken into, no matter if the entire world agrees that there's evidence of crime in it.

let's wait until something like a "perfectly encrypted" phone actually exists before we go down this road. AFAIK, the feds have eventually been able to break into the phone in every high profile case where the issue has come up. it's not impossible, they just don't want to pay what it costs.




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