Standards bodies write up “here’s how encryption works, here’s how you implement it in your software”, and the NSA was actually working against that effort. Ever since the Snowden revelations were published in 2013, there’s been quite a movement to further encrypt the internet. I think there’s been an awakening on the part of private companies that it is important to their users to keep their data confidential and secret. Apple saw these revelations about the overreach of intelligence services and law enforcement services, and created a phone that was harder to crack because they wanted to increase the security of their users. I do believe that. The Apple case … Continue reading Jeff Larson