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You know about this battle where the government wants Apple to help them unlock a terrorist's iPhone and Apple is resisting. I'm not sure how I feel about it, not because I'm in favor of the government spying on us but because I'm not sure how this is that different from the government tapping conventional phones or seizing and examining desktop computers. There's an inconsistency here that I'd have to sort through. As it turns out, Fred Kaplan has more on this.