Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ...
by oddevan on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:02AM
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Point to TSA locks and the New York City master keys. Both systems are similar enough to encryption backdoors, and both systems have already been compromised.
NYC: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/03/12/new-york-1620 TSA: http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/11/tsa-master-baggage-keys-3...
This is something that I find is hard to explain to nontechnical people because it isn't intuitive of our understanding of the real world.
E.g. "If a bank can keep my money from being stolen, then surely you can keep this backdoor from being stolen, so stop complaining and just do it already!" -- As Trump would probably say when ordering it done, echoing the sentiments of many.