Apple versus FBI: Can privacy and security be friends?

The recent Apple court case against the U.S. government has been dominating headlines and stoking our collective paranoid fears. Should the government be able to force private companies to help decrypt our devices or does this set a dangerous precedent?

Here’s the rub: the FBI can’t have its encrypted cake and eat it too. There’s no way to create a backdoor that the FBI can use and that can’t be used by nefarious characters trying to get at your personal info. Read more...