Julian Sanchez: This Is the Real Reason Apple Is Fighting the FBI »
1. This offers the government a way to make tech companies help with investigations.
2. This public fight could affect private orders from the government.
3. The consequences of a precedent permitting this sort of coding conscription are likely to be enormous in scope.
4. Most ominously, the effects of a win for the FBI in this case almost certainly won’t be limited to smartphones.