[Cryptography] EFF amicus brief in support of Apple

[grarpamp]

> It's time we stopped believing that there's something magic about open
> source software.

> There's no way the average person can build their own software from
> source [...] forcing your 80 year old grandfather who used to be a chef to audit a
> few million lines of source code, compile them, and load them onto
> his phone before he can make a phone call isn't going to help

No. See, those are the real problems... mindset. You all who say
this type of talk are disbelieving apologists still trying to advance
control, profit, babysitting, trust us we know better, etc... over others.
No one is asserting that opensource is currently better or magic.
However, when a billion humans around the world *may* look at
and even participate in the hw and sw if they wanted to, versus only 25
people locked in the coderoom of a megacorp whose primary
raison d etre is by definition making money... the possible odds
that it *could* be better and even a solution to everything as you
say... are in fact better. Because it's open, not closed.
And even if that doesn't happen, then with opensource there
are *still* just 25 talented people involved in and hacking on it...
openly, not closed.

Nor do I see you offering to personally help those grandfathers
around you get their phone / cpu up and running when they
understand *why* they want to use the open hw and sw, but
come asking some human they know who can help the details.
Or setting up some local collectives that do so openly for fun.