Andrew Quote by Laura Sydell

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

— Edward Snowden

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that…

— Laura Sydell

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software code is…

— Laura Sydell

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

— Rush Limbaugh

[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software…

— Laura Sydell

“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same…

— Tim Weiner

Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories,…

— Ted Koppel

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

— Paul Ryan

The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your iPhone, no…

— Michael Wolff

“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the 1960s, the…

— Edward Lucas

I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know,…

— Angus King

“there is no check or limit on the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government’s interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so…

— Glenn Greenwald