Comment by zugi

Thanks for the link, interesting article. The UK is among the worst in this regard.

Regarding the article's Apple example:

> The FBI eventually found a third party to break into the phone, but the tension between privacy and security remains unresolved.

This is actually quite resolved.

- Tech companies in the US are free to write secure encryption technologies without backdoors.

- Government is free to try to break it when they have valid legal authority.

- Tech companies are obligated to turn over information in their possession when given a legal warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause that a crime has occurred.

- Tech companies are not required to help hack into systems on the government's behalf.

As far as I'm concerned, in the US things are perfectly resolved, and quite well I think. It's the government and fear-mongers who constantly try to "unresolve" things.