On Friday morning, we noted that the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Yahoo had declined to appear at the President‘s cybersecurity summit at Stanford, but that Apple CEO Tim Cook was going. However, we pointed out that all signs suggested Cook was going to send a message that he wasn‘t going to give in and allow the government a backdoor to iOS encryption. Cook had recently noted that the government „would have to cart us out in a box“ before Apple would add a backdoor. And, indeed, speaking right before President Obama‘s speech, Cook delivered a strong defense of encryption and privacy: