I had the article at lunch, so I may be wrong on the amendments, you may be right.
I believe it was BBC article, lemme see if I can dig it up.
Here's part of it, must have been an engadget article I read about the 4th/5th .
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35664904
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Apple has argued that the FBI's request violates its constitutional right to freedom of speech, because a 1999 court case ruled that computer code is considered speech
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A side note, I just bought a Western Digital 1tb external USB drive to backup my main machine. I've always had multiple internal drives for this purpose (my last desktop machine had 5 physical HDD's). With the amount of work I've been doing in 3d design, a lot of my files are irreplaceable if the HDD fails on this laptop. WD always has pretty good software that comes with their drives, and this one has a password lock on it. It's tied to my logon account, so if it sees this machine and my account, it automatically unlocks. But If not, it requires a password to unlock the drive. But the setup CLEARLY states that in no way will WD be able to retrieve a lost password or data. I doubt the data is encrypted, so a physical manual retrieval of the data bit by bit would be possible. Made me think of this dilemma.