Apple is waging a brutal war in the tourist court of public opinion against the FBI and its court social club mandate Apple to hack an iPhone . It ’s a big bargain , but despite the hand - wringing rhetoric , Apple has failed to make the general public actually manage .

The top picture come from a demonstration this afternoon in Washington D.C , one of 40 planned action dissent the FBI ’s demand across the nation . unhappily , despite the impressive level of organization , few people seem to have turned up — according to Getty , around a dozen protesters turned up at the Washington demo , and a picture from the San Francisco exchange shows more telly cameras than mark .

DontBreakOurPhoneskicking off in SF . This is not about Apple , it ’s about the future of online safety & security.pic.twitter.com/PJOlxhtuDa

William Duplessie

— Fight for the Future ( @fightfortheftr)February 24 , 2016

Similar levels of apathy are on video display in a opinion poll posted yesterday by Pew Research Center , which showed thatof 1,000 adults surveyed , only 38 percent sided with Apple .

All this is not to say that people should affirm the Justice Department : it ’s that Apple is choosing to fight this arguing very publically , accept that it could bank on the backup of the hundreds of thou who queue up for days just to give Apple money . Hopefully , the legal strategy ( Apple ’s reply to the court order is due Friday ) will be a short more successful .

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