Apple SHOULD have responded, “Sure. We will do what we can to crack the current encryption: When in OUR possession, in OUR labs and under OUR controls. We will then GLADLY return the non-encrypted phone to the FBI. After which, the process will be destroyed and no further customer need worry about any ‘back-door’, 4th Amendment infringements.â€
Apple Secures their property, judge is satisfied, FBI would have the data they requested and the FBI wouldn’t have SQUAT to further abuse the 4th for the rest of us.
I have long lost the trust of ANY govt to do anything for the benefit of The People, let alone voluntarily say “Whoa!†when trampling upon our Rights. I can think of NO slippery-slope that is not a full-on free-fall.
So what is the stop some programmer or executive douche bag at Apple getting a hold of that code and then selling it, nothing
Because it’s all non-nefarious if GOVT were in ‘control’ of said key(s)? /s
Oh, there is ALWAYS that chance and, I suspect, Apple would go buh-bye if it did.
Either way, with the ‘hackers’ and ex-savvy out there, like Win 10, IMO, all they’d need to do it give it an air of ‘We found XYZ’, and things could go south for said company right quick.