EFF: “This week’s order by a federal magistrate judge requiring Apple to engineer new security flaws in its iPhone software operating system has prompted widespread and escalating controversy. Legitimate concerns about its implications have driven users around the country to raise their voices in defense of not only their privacy, but also the security of their online platforms threatened by the FBI’s demands.”

• See also via WSJ – Apple v. FBI: Key Passages from the Justice Department’s Rebuttal and via NYT – Apple Sees Value in Its Stand to Protect Security and via MIT Technology Review – The Legal Question at the Core of the Apple Encryption Standoff