How do you feel about the millions of people who use encryption to protect themselves from thieves? Protect their lives and identities from oppressive dictators around the world? From unwarranted spying by our own govt. that swore they weren't doing it? You put a lot of stock into 4th A. protections, but Vlad Putin doesn't GAF about those, nor do the Chinese or any other foreign power, nor do criminal hackers who have stolen US govt. data repeatedly.
The real pity is that, in your shortsightedness, you fail to realize this will do nothing to stop the criminals and terrorists. Virtually unbreakable encryption programs already exist that duplicate Apple's built in methods, such as PGP. It is free, simple, and already widespread and doesn't depend on Apple or any other hardware manufacturer.
This will, however, open up a method for breaking into the casual, everyday user's private data, their contacts, banking, financial communications and more. That you cannot see that is the true intent of the FBI's tactics, after seeing the same crap pulled under the Patriot Act, makes me wonder at your naivete.
“How do you feel about the millions of people who use encryption to protect themselves from thieves?”
It would be awful. If Apple is stupid enough to let the encryption out after using it to datamine this one, they would be even worse than I thought.
Sorry, I forgot...one other thing. You are an idiot.
Funny. My naivete is something about which you know nothing. How many FBI agents do you think want to look at your "private information" enough to go through the hassle of getting a Judge to grant a warrant to look at everybody's phone? THERE STILL HAS TO BE PROBABLE CAUSE YOU IDIOT. But if a phone is encrypted, it is up to the US to crack it. I'm OK with that. If they get a warrant, as they have done with respect to this particular case of this murdering allah worshipper and his killer wife, I'm good with that.
I have never advocated removing the need for probable cause and a warrant. Some of the ridiculous shit you post makes me wonder at your idiocy. No one is saying that they hack anyone anytime, as you would have them believe. You paranoid nutbags are determined to make the 4th amendment too weak to mean anything.
Unless you yourself are selling pictures of kids or dealing drugs or plotting to blow shit up, this is no big deal. No one is asking to change the world to warrantless searches, ESPECIALLY me. Why you don't get that through your thick goddam heads is beyond me. This is a marketing ploy to sell to all the third world shitheels who do business with dictators, mullahs and traffickers. And since most of them have nothing resembling the common sense of the 4th amendment, that is who it appeals to. Well, them and you, apparently.