> Because the victim isn’t alive to share his password, and the phone will have locked before the body was found, the government won’t be able to search the phone to find the messages. Apple’s policy will keep the police from finding the killer. That seems bad. The problem with this argument is that it applies to all secure encryption. The purpose of encryption is to keep people not authorized to access private data…
Everyone seems to be forgetting that encryption and data is not bound to a given country and their legal system or constitution or whatever.
My phone needs to be protected from all intruders, regardless of my own government, other governments, corporations, or single actors.