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Edging into a new topic for the moment, I read recently that one way PEOPLE may get to be better able to secure their iPhones (and others) would be for someone to write cunning little apps to do that. I can think of one or two possibilities already (one would be to mimic the iPhone being off and then require a new password, perhaps another to hide info that a user would want hidden if an FBI were to break into the phone, I am sure other ideas would come along...).
Perhaps the apps writers would have to be outside the USA. And I suppose Apple might have its own requirements (burdens) on such apps to make them accessible to AAPL itself or the FBI/NSA.
What's say TPTB? That might be a fairly quick way to make a buck...
The operating system and hardware vendor can undermine any security programmed into an App.
We need to move to completely open sourced OSes and hardware, but even Android is not that.
Sorry you won't be able to hide from the backdoor if Apple loses their case.