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What's your point? China can already ask for the same thing, and it makes sense for the government to investigate ways to circumvent security, just like they might do with a combination safe. Crucially, the government isn't asking for the companies to build products with broken security — they are asking to circumvent already broken security.

From a legal perspective, this is no different from asking Apple to circumvent the passcode protection to extract unencrypted data off a device, which Apple has already done many times.



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