Dont' Search Me Bro!

If Apple is forced to do this, this would be a big loss to everyone's personal security! Here is why: - With secure encryption, no one can tamper or change personal data except the owner. This personal data could be your email, photos, location, purchase history, etc. Encrypted, this data is secure from other people's view, and from other people trying to change it. - Once the encryption is hacked, anyone could not only look at your data, but also change it! Why would someone want to change data? And who do you trust to not change your data? Well, it should would be nice if someone wanted to frame you for something, if they could insert false location data, false photos, etc into your personal data. They could place you at the scene of a crime without you knowing it, and then show a court your personal "secure" data as proof you were there! Do you trust the US government not to change your personal data? I sure don't! Remember, this is the same government that "found" WMD in Iraq, and then proceeded to destroy a country! For all we know there are only personal photos and phone numbers on this guy's phone. Do we really want to risk the loss of everyone's security just for the sake of possibly finding out more about this one guy? And for those who say "I have nothing to hide", well that is great. But do you really want to risk having someone insert false data into your personal data and then you trying to claim it is false? You might want to consider how to defend yourself against these possible cases: - How do you prove you did NOT send a particular email, if it right there in your out box! - How do you prove you did not make phone calls to a terrorist number, if it logged right there on your phone! - How do you prove you did not make purchases for weapon if there are records of these purchases in your personal data? - Where were you on Sunday? Oh, your phone shows you were at a location where known terrorist congregate. - Your spouse wants to divorce you, and has proof on your phone that you were at bars and hotels! Whatever you get the point. The point is not that you have nothing to hide! Most American's probably don't. The point is once your personal security is compromised, anyone can do anything to anyone, and you have no way to defend yourself in such a world!

If Apple did the encryption properly, there is no key other than the owner of the phone. What we have here is in effect a box that will explode (destroy itself) if you try to open it too many times without the correct key. So now the FBI is demanding that Apple create something it does not have, and which hopefully should not be possible to create, if they did the encryption properly. What is Apple to do? So its not about Apple complying with a court order. Its about asking Apple to do something which should not be possible. The net result is if Apple does provide them with some back door, this will mean either that Apple is not competent to create a secure box, or they have been lying to their millions of customers for this. I would love to see Apple crash and burn over this, but I really hope they did their job properly or did not lie to their customers on this point. We'll see what happens next.