For some reason the major media don't see this as important. So I put this here in other. What do you THINK?
This link is from Wired, but some others also have the same story.
Smart Phone Backdoor.
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The letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post, is but the latest turn of EVENTS in an ongoing battle between the government agents seeking to PROTECT national security and the technologists working to defend public privacy in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about MASS surveillance.

While people like FBI Director FBI James B. Comey have argued that locking law enforcement out altogether puts innocent people at risk, the tech companies maintain that building a backdoor for the good guys means creating a vulnerability that could just as easily be used by the bad ones. And so, in recent months, companies like Apple have tightened their security, making it impossible for law enforcement to access the company’s servers or individuals’ password-protected information. And these companies want it to stay that way.

“Encryption protects billions of people every day against countless threats—be they STREET criminals trying to steal our phones and laptops, computer criminals trying to defraud us, corporate spies trying to obtain our companies’ most valuable trade secrets, repressive governments trying to stifle dissent, or foreign intelligence agencies trying to compromise our and our allies’ most sensitive national security secrets,” the letter to President Obama reads.