One of the reasons I gave up on Slashdot was how people used any story as a tangent to flog their unrelated hatred of some company. Please don't turn HN into Slashdot.
I'm sorry I gave you the impression I hate Apple, thats certainly not what I intended.
One of the implicit ideas underlying Apple's arguments is that they are more trustworthy than the government.
But theres a lot of evidence that they are not as strong on privacy as they should be. Casting Apple, and private industry in general as privacy heros does a disservice to those very valid concerns.
None of this gives me the impression that I should trust the government at all, so why bother making the argument against Apple here? It doesn't effectively rebut the article. It just comes off as axe-grinding.
One of the reasons I gave up on Slashdot was how people used any story as a tangent to flog their unrelated hatred of some company. Please don't turn HN into Slashdot.