NPR said this morning that there are dozens of similar phones in police lockers unable to be cracked. If there is evidence on the dead perp’s phone then there must also be evidence on those other phones. And it’s not just terrorism, some minor drug dealer will have evidence on their phone to take down a major dealer. The only logical conclusion to your argument is to force Apple to unlock every phone ever owned by any suspect. The next thing that happens is 1000’s of criminals walk due to Apple mishandling evidence against them. Then the government gets the unlock SW.
“The only logical conclusion to your argument is to force Apple to unlock every phone ever owned by any suspect.”
1.) We are at war with terrorists who want to kill us, and when you are at war, measures are taken that would not otherwise be taken in normal times.
2.) Are you not aware that the courts routinely order people/suspects/corporations/arrestees to hand over records, that judges give the police warrants to enter a person’s residence and search for evidence, that judges issue subpoenas for people to cough up evidence that might incriminate them? What is sacrosanct about a cell phone?