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Wow - how sad. To think the 2nd highest scoring post ever on hacker news is Apple's 2016 A Message to Our Customers. A display of intelligence, morality and courage under great pressure: https://hn.algolia.com

How things have changed.

> In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed"

So are we, Apple. So are we.

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Apple did the right thing.

I would much rather they were transparent, so that people can move services, rather than build a backdoor in secret, to appease the far-left Labour government.

Oh stop with "far left" nonsense, none of our main political parties are much further than slightly left or right of centrist.

Bizarre statement. The far-left are so far-left, that they call everything center "far right".

Building a backdoor and telling us is better than building a backdoor and not telling us, but not building a backdoor at all is ideal.

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