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But... why? I am not a criminal and no one but me should ever be able to access my device.

Because murderers, kidnappers, and murdered victims also use phones. The article includes commentary from an Indiana State Police task force which claims to have used information from warrants on phones to protect children in some manner.

So? Murderers and kidnappers will benefit from being able to access their victims phone - after all the phone was already weakened to support such access.

Also: murderers and kidnappers don’t have to use broken cryptography. So again the only people who are harmed are people who aren’t criminals.

Also the statement from the Indiana police is extremely vague, and doesn’t make any details available about what they were doing.

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