BynaryShef

The AG suggests that Apple should do what their customer (in this case the county) is requesting. Resetting the passcode is not a service Apple can provide with iOS 9. To say otherwise is (to quote Tim Cook himself) "political crap." Apple does suggest several methods to restore your phone without losing data if you forget your passcode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306. As Apple has said repeatedly, these options were presented to the DOJ but hasty actions by their agents made the options useless. So it's not Apple's fault that the data can't be recovered, it's the DOJ. If they had been more careful, and contacted Apple sooner, this whole thing could have been solved a long time ago. Furthermore, while it is true that the DOJ is not asking specifically for a backdoor into all iOS installation, the solution to forcibly accessing this single iPhone would be an enabling technology which could easily lead to the creation of a backdoor. And that is what makes it so dangerous. If it were well know that this technology exists in the government, it would definitely be a popular target for hackers. Given the government's inability to secure it's own systems (the IRS alone has had at least a half million taxpayer records hacked in the past 12 months) they would most likely be able to acquire it. With such a track record, winning the opinion of the people with be a struggle. Kudos to Apple for having the courage to stand up against government overreach.