The ones courts which governed the relevant company were willing to issue warrants on behalf of — that is, those our regular legal and political systems decide on.
For a big multinational like Apple, that’s probably a fair number. But it’s also harder to hide they’re doing that, and let’s us bring pressure on them politically for their political misdeeds. In the end, it’ll be major powers who can — US, Europe, China, etc.
My point is that it’s never going to be the case that technologists get to unilaterally decide that for all of society.
For a big multinational like Apple, that’s probably a fair number. But it’s also harder to hide they’re doing that, and let’s us bring pressure on them politically for their political misdeeds. In the end, it’ll be major powers who can — US, Europe, China, etc.
My point is that it’s never going to be the case that technologists get to unilaterally decide that for all of society.
My proposal is just to bring phones into line with existing warrants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19036408
But by doing so, technologists have the political cover to push back on spy agency excesses and abuses.