by eris

Before this change, if your iPhone was stolen or lost a criminal could break into it with relative ease, accessing your private information using the same backdoor as law enforcement.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped law enforcement from twisting the nature of Apple’s announcement in order to convince the public that encryption on mobile devices will bring about a doomsday scenario of criminals using “technological fortresses” to hide from the law. Sadly, some of the public seems to be buying this propaganda. Just last Friday, the Washington Post’s Editorial Board published an Op-Ed calling for Apple and Google to use “their wizardry” to “invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant.”