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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Apple have experts working around the clock stopping criminal hackers having access to our information. Once they hand a master key over to UK government agents, they no longer have the power to stop expert criminals getting to our information. It becomes a technology battle because criminal hackers are just as clever as the ones presently working round the clock to stopping them.

This. People seem to be confused and think that people have an issue here with the authorities "invading terrorists privacy". No... any phone like that they hack into for infor will belong either to a dead person or one convicted of criminal activity, in which case their right to privacy is irrelevant.

Where the problem lies, is in making the jump from "it's OK for the authorities to try to access that information" and, "the phone manufacturers should PROVIDE the authorities with back-door security access to ALL phones, just incase".

There is a HUGE difference here.