“Just because Apple is in the business of building encryption software does not mean Apple is in the business of tearing down their encryption software any more than Boeing is in the business of building planes that are specially designed to crash.”
This.
We do not demand safe manufacturers to break into their own safes. The whole point is to make something secure, not something which appears secure but is easily breached with some arcane knowledge. To compel them to is to destroy their whole purpose for existing.
So far the TexasGator, jessduntno, and Code Toad have showed up. . . I expect the rest of the usual gang of Empty Headed Hate-Apple above all reason suspects to show up soon.
“The whole point is to make something secure, not something which appears secure but is easily breached with some arcane knowledge. “
No, the whole point was to make it SEEM secure.
“To compel them to is to destroy their whole purpose for existing.”
To compel them is to let the world know that their phone is NOT secure.
Apple should have quietly cracked the phone. Now the world knows that the expertise is out there to do it.
But then, 99.9% of iPhone users don’t even know what encryption is.