ashmizen

There is a reason why anyone who has knowledge in this field (programmers, Google CEO, facebook CEO, security expert John McAfee) all support Apple. On the surface, laymen may think that Apple can just provide a one-use crack to help the FBI. However, Apple doesn't have such cracking software, they would need to create it - and once that cat is out of the bag, the security of all iphone users will be forever compromised.

@jason98 As someone who works as a programmer, I'd like to address 3 points. 1. Apple has already done everything it can to help, short of writing a backdoor. It has given everything to the police from the iCloud account, and in other cases have helped police unlock phones secured poorly. 2. This phone is secured well - the user has activated data encryption, and protected his phone from brute force by enabling wipe after X failed password attempts. This is actually exact what you are saying - Apple has made a phone that is un-crackable to themselves. If you want this, then you should support Apple, because the FBI wants that to be illegal. 3. Apple cannot crack the iphone. What the police wants is for Apple to create a cracked OS, and then "update" the phone with the shitty, backdoored OS. Think of the torrent sites, and cracked games - once created, it will be on the internet forever. The creation of such a cracked OS will allow anyone who has access to it to crack any iphone - be it FBI, terrorists, or foreign governments like China.