White House Begins To Realize It May Have Made A Huge Mistake In Going After Apple Over iPhone Encryption

One of the key lines that various supporters of backdooring encryption have repeated in the last year, is that they “just want to have a discussion” about the proper way to… put backdoors into encryption. Over and over again you had the likes of James Comey insisting that he wasn’t demanding backdoors, but really just wanted a “national conversation” on the issue (despite the fact we had just such a conversation in the 90s and concluded: backdoors bad, let’s move on.):