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Not Wrong, but Not on the Right Page

So Obama was hanging out at SXSW , and has this to say, re the current smartphone encryption debate:  http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-11/obama-confronts-a-skeptical-silicon-valley-at-south-by-southwest To summarize the article, the salient point are in these quotes, imho: "The question we now have to ask is, if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system, where the encryption is so strong there’s no key, there’s no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?" Obama said. "If in fact you can’t crack that at all, government can’t get in, then everybody’s walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket."  Compromise is possible, he said, and the technology industry must help design it.  "I suspect the answer is going to come down to, how do we create a system that, encryption is as strong as possible, the key is secure as possible...