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Summit. All commercial encryption before it is released to the public, has to have an encryption key given to the government. In other words your email is only encrypted to the recipient, and I'm not sure that those who intercept the packets can't read the email.

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Then why are the police having such a hard time getting into iPhones? This is likely not relevant to the original post.

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The problem has nothing to do with encryption Summit, but being locked out after three failed attempts at entering a password or a swipe. That is why iPhones have gone to biometrics like fingerprints , facial or retina.

And TV producers are using biometrics in their plots, holding phones to the face of a dead person, even taking an eye to use in a scanner or using a dead persons thumb. Nothing to do with encryption.

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Agree re encryption vs biometric. I think we’re in agreement that encryption alone won’t be sufficient. It will need to be combined with biometric data based on physical or auditory or both characteristics, not susceptible to dead parts being held for the camera.

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