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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by LAMike on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:21PM (#11308837)
The US government would respond by banning all iOS devices
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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by koenigdavidmj on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:33PM (#11308921)
And most of the US government's phones suddenly turn into expensive bricks.

I'm not sure whether a company should be 'too big to govern', but it is on occasion hilarious.

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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by ohyeshedid on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:59PM (#11309561)
It's not that it's too big to govern, it's that they're too big to fail. Publicly traded, employment footprint, market penetration; too big to fail. The impact of any action that would kill Apple here would also destroy the economy. Never happen.
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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by thirdsun on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:14AM (#11310828)
Which is probably a very good way to cause at least minor riots.
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