The full list of who’s for Apple and who’s for U.S. government overreach

“Sheri Pym, the U.S. magistrate who ordered Apple to help the FBI hack into a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, has some reading to do,” Philip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune.

“Thursday was the deadline for so-called friends of the court to weigh in on the case and Pym’s court was hit a flood of letters and briefs the likes of which I suspect she’s never seen,” P.E.D. reports. “In terms of sheer volume, Apple took the day. For the benefit of the press, the company has been keeping close tabs on the flood of support it’s received from tech companies, law professors, privacy advocates, civil liberties groups, encryption experts, and even the family of one of the San Bernardino victims.”

P.E.D. reports, “The FBI’s list is considerably shorter…”

Full list of who’s for Apple and who’s for U.S. government overreach here.

MacDailyNews Take: Who’s for U.S. government overreach? The confused – of which certain elements of and people within the U.S. government are a significant subset.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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