Apple’s Brief Hits the FBI With a Withering Fact Check | WIRED

Not a great week for the FBI thus far; also see The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS (Medium Backchannel)

"Apple appeared to sum up its assessment of the government’s incorrect understanding of the legal and technical issues in the case in a quote at the end of its brief yesterday:

“Almost 90 years ago, Justice Louis Brandeis, reflecting on the ‘progress of science’ beyond wiretapping famously warned that ‘[t]he greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding’.”"

Apple’s Brief Hits the FBI With a Withering Fact Check | WIRED