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JeffA2 said:
You don't get to make that judgment. Whether you agree with the FBI's request or find it an attack on privacy, these investigators have a legal warrant to search that phone. Your opinion of the odds don't come into it at all.

A search warrant does NOT legally compel Apple or any law-abiding citizen to do anything to clean up a law enforcement agency's screw-up, nor to destroy their business in so doing.  Apple is within their rights (and responsibilities) to try to appeal said writ.

As for my opinion on the odds, your opinion is equally meaningless, if not more so.  I am within my rights to express an opinion on motives of the so-called investigators.  With due respect to law enforcement personnel everywhere, were there not already precedence of the Federal government's repeated overreach vis-a-vis Privacy and Encryption, your disagreement might have merit. As such, I can make that judgement all day long, TYVM.  I do not for one second believe the FBI thinks they're going to find their "magic bullet" locked within that one little iPhone, as they claim to be pinning their hopes upon.  Instead, this is a CYA operation to cover their own goof-up, and are willing to throw a major US corporation under the bus, along with the millions of their customers that depend upon them, just to save face. Meanwhile, their higher-ups are using this to set legal precedence against private sector encryption, which is an even more egregious act.