Unlock one and you’ve unlocked them all.
FBI wants the crypto key, not an unlocked phone handed back to them.
That should be the solution. For chain of command, after a warrant, Apple builds a small LE room in Cupertino HQ. in it is what they need to unlock a phone used in a crime.
LE escorts the phone to the door, a checked out employee takes it in, there is a camera on the room showing partial view of what he is doing but blocked from seeing his hands on the phone, he works with maximum efficiency, once it’s unlocked, it’s handed back to LE who has been outside the door the whole time.
“For chain of command, after a warrant, Apple builds a small LE room in Cupertino HQ. in it is what they need to unlock a phone used in a crime.”
And then try to sell me an iphone they claim has encryption? Any other bright ideas?
And how do you ensure that the technology never leaves that room? One corrupt tech, one successful hack into the system, and the genie is forever out of the bottle. Certainly there would be plenty of people offering vast sums of money and/or exerting tremendous pressure to get it.
Someone kidnaps a key Apple management employee or a family member and holds them hostage until the algorithms, software, hardware, or schematics of how to unlock an iOS device are delivered to them. . . Once the technology exists for the good guys, it won't be long before it's available to the bad guys. Apple iOS devices are no longer secure. The best solution is to never create it in the first place. Just because Apple can create it, and should they? If Apple does, then Apple is back to square one for over 800 Million iOS devices and their users. Trust is what differentiates Apple on privacy from all the rest. Destroy that and they destroy their brand.