“Apple should break open this phone, but NOT give the key to the feds.”
Asking out of ignorance; what is the difference between jail-breaking an I-phone and unlocking the back door of an I-phone? Kids perform this jail break trick all the time....
When you jail break a phone you already know the PIN you set (if you have set one). The FBI doesn’t know the PIN thats the whole problem.
One, it’s you phone. Two, you know the passcode. Three, once you jailbreak your phone, it becomes susceptible to intrusion via a number of vectors because you removed the security.
Jail-breaking is a horse of an entirely different hue. That is breaking open the “consumer self-protection” apple system that makes their products idiot-proof. It allows low-level OS functionality that most apple customers neither need nor would use.
Breaking the security of an apple product requires hardware level access... and that is something any technology company is unlikely to want anyone to do. REALLY messes with their proprietary secrets.