“People just don’t understand what this means.”
Clearly, SOME don’t.
The 4th amendment was written to catch or include in a search, people who are hiding something that can not be garnered by other than a search of their persons or effects. It was written that way intentionally.. Pedophiles with thousands of pictures. Cartels making distribution plans. Mass murdering terrorists plotting with other cells...stuff like that. It was to protect the citizen singular from an unreasonable or warrant less search and to protect citizens at large from those who planned bad thins. Farook and his pistol packing mama did some pretty bad things. No one complained when they ripped through their computers. This is no different. Just harder because of the lockout that some believe, myself included, should be done in such a way that only SPECIFIC phones can be opened. Such as this phone, for which there is a specific warrant for the informatio non this phone only...
Yup absolutely. So, they have his phone, they took it upon themselves to change the passcode, have at it. The government and all their capability have the right to confiscate property, and to seize once the court order is done. That PERSONAL property is in the hands of the government.
What the government shouldn’t be able to do is to compel a third party or manufacturer into forcefully weakening or removing their built in safety. This is why Apple doesn’t want to be in the middle.
As to the silly notion that it’s for just one phone and it’s for the children... Just look at history. You really buying that? I suppose this time it will be different. Never mind once other countries start demanding the same access for their laws. This is why Apple is purposefully trying to make their products completely private and only the end users of the messages can view them. It’s exactly what I want personally. I want to minimize my risk of identity theft, I demand that from my products.
There is no such thing as a one time only digital break, that is just pure fantasy being pushed by people ignorant or those pushing an agenda.