The reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.
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Tim CookWe do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
Tim Cook