We’ve heard government officials make a lot of questionable claims-to try to get Apple and Google to-not encrypt data on their smartphone platforms. However, this might be the most ridiculous and shameless scare tactic we’ve seen anyone use yet. The Guardian-brings us word that former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker is now claiming that Apple and Google shouldn’t encrypt their smartphones’ data because they’ll end up like BlackBerry. RELATED: The government is shamelessly trying to scare Apple and Google from encrypting their phones “Blackberry pioneered the same business model that Google and Apple are doing now — that has not ended well for Blackberry,” said Baker, who went on to explain that BlackBerry has been-throwing away potential government customers in



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