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prove that you're communicating something when you've never explicitly said

Because courts aren't that dumb. Blackmail is illegal, too, and frequently the person demanding blackmail doesn't explicitly say "give me money or I publish this evidence." (It's legal to publish information, and it's legal to get paid not to publish it, but it's illegal to demand money not to publish it.)

I don't know what happened with Apple.




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