Obama on encryption: We can't be absolutists about this
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Where does President Barack Obama stand on Apple versus the FBI? He still isn't saying, but on Friday the president did paint a picture of how he perceives the tension between security and personal privacy and the existential dangers of unbreakable encryption.
The president was **t at South by Southwest to talk about Apple — a day earlier White House officials promised he wouldn't — even so, he couldn't dance about tech**logy and government's most burning issue in a talk designed to illustrate all the ways tech**logy and entrepreneurs could work to make government better.