Apple v FBI: engineers would be ashamed to break their own encryption

Among the secretive, almost religious community of expert security engineers, breaking your own encryption is seen as shameful and unholy

Apple's security team are a tight-knit tribe of hackers driven by a strict belief system and with almost unparalleled power around the company's Cupertino campus, according to a former employee who worked closely with them.

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