The FBI wants a backdoor only it can use – but wanting it doesn’t make it possible

Much like climate change denialists, politicians continue to debate encryption - ignoring the consensus of experts that it must not be compromised

The FBI's demand that Apple create a defeat device for decrypting a phone that belonged to a mass murderer has all the ingredients for a disastrous public conversation.

Combine a highly technical debate about information security with an emotionally charged subject matter, then confuse the whole issue with a 24-hour news cycle tick-tock about who did what, when, and you end up bogged down in questions like, "Does it matter if the FBI directed the local cops to try to change the phone's password, inadvertently creating the lockout?"