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> In fact, we were never able to view the contents of his phone because of this gift to sex traffickers that came, not from God, but from Apple.

Thanks to the poor state of U.S. education, inscrutable nature of encryption, and the failure of secure software developers to protect nearly anything at all, this sentence remains unintelligible to most Americans.

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- God is all knowing

- God is all powerful

- God created the universe

Given the above three, God created the universe knowing he was creating it in a way that said sex traffickers would come into being, and that they would get access to said phones/encryption.

It is literally impossible for the first three items to be true and the consequence to be false. As such, "this gift to sex traffickers" did, indeed, come for God (and Apple).

It depends on what you think omnipotence is; if you believe that it is constrained by consistency (God cannot create a square circle) then it could be the case that any world created would have some evil. Then a benign God could create the "best possible world" in which bad things happen.

All academic anyway, there is no God.

Even given that, He chose to create this world, with these people. Choosing between 2 evils doesn't mean you chose evil, but it does mean you chose an evil.

If I believed in god, I'd say that mathematics is indeed a gift from the all-powerful.

Let's should make a religion with secure encryption (no master key) at its core. Once it becomes recognized, it would be unconstitutional to ban it.

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