In five years the world will be awash in encryption the FBI can’t break, provided by parties beyond the reach of the US Government.
This case is pointless.
Surprise, surprise.
Today - Oh, did we say just one phone? We meant about 12.
Tomorrow - Oh did we say about 12 phones? We meant about 12 million phones.
I suppose it depends on if the state really doesn’t have a way to do it. If they really did, and Apple refuses to help, it seems to me this would be a good way to convince bad guys to trust using these phones more. If they really didn’t, and they win this and somehow force Apple to help, seems like it becomes less useful as an intelligence/law enforcement tool as the bad dudes would just use their phones less frequently, knowing for sure that they can be broken.
Freegards