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> Apple has also done a reasonable job of holding onto their signing keys, to date.

How do you know that?



Because whoever has stolen them has been reasonably discreet, and we don’t see compromised Apple things all over the place — which means if they’ve been stolen at all, it’s been by high class attackers.

If your goal is to stop the NSA et al stealing a key or owning a device, you’ll be sad.

But if your goal is to change the law and redefine the parameters of them owning devices, you might make progress. The political process will insist on a means to access these devices, and they’ll accomplish it by one means or another. By engaging with instead of fighting that, we gain the ability to have a say on what those means are.




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