[DiogenesLamp]

But the cracking PROCESS once developed can be used on any specific phone, and FBI, CIA, local cops, sheriff departments, highway patrol can then send a bag of phones with a court order demanding that they be decrypted using the established technique.

Yes it can, but since the "process" is to remain in Apple custody, I hardly see it as a problem for the rest of us.

Apple will then have to come up with tools specific to each phone, since they did it once to this phone.

That is exactly where I see this going.

[DBrow]

“I hardly see it as a problem for the rest of us. “

Until they get your phone.

Until someone copies Apple, or an apple employee leaks key details.

If they unlock this phone, there will be no unlockable phones. Easier for FedGov than getting a law passed, and much cheaper, too.