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> since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.

And they've also not done that. When Jobs died Apple promptly bent the knee and joined up to PRISM.

Very publicly resisted? Nope. They went along, very quietly (it was Yahoo that tried to fight back). We only found out about Apple having joined up thanks to the man that wrote this article.

How many human rights atrocities does Apple get to partake in before their credibility is shot, such that the burden is put on them instead, of proving - in such circumstances as this one - that they're not commiting more atrocities.




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