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Actually I'm not sure he's right. (Completely at least.) It's definitely the FBI's job to worry about public safety. But I don't think it isn't Apple's job to sell public safety. As I see it, they sell whatever they choose to sell, as any business does, in the interest of making a profit. These days privacy has becoming a much bigger issue, and something that consumers will pay for. And from the way Apple pitches their products, it seems that they do sell safety.


FBI is LEO not PSO...

Heck, their acronym expands to Investigation not mall cop public safety...


> FBI is LEO

Not anymore. They dropped “law enforcement” from their primary mission, changing it to “national security”.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/fbis-main-mission-now-not...


That's clearly when it all started to go wrong.




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