About a week and a half ago, the FBI and the US court system dropped an ex parte mandate on Apple. That order, demanding that Cook and company somehow penetrate an iPhone 5c used by one of the shooters in San Bernardino, California last December, launched a wide public debate about smartphone encryption. Most of the focus has been on the conflict between the government and tech companies. MacNN took to polling again, to try and get some numbers on what the US public thought this last weekend about the issue.
