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A FAIRY TALE

Apple relents and assigns special engineering staff to comply with court/FBI request. The concerned parties gather in the special secret hardened room for the proceedings. 3, 2, 1, and here we go. . .the iPhone is now crac. . . .wait a damn minute. WTF just happened? It's bricked! Oops!

The special Apple engineering staff is disciplined and subsequently reassigned to other departments/poached (yeah, I know) by high-profile tech security firms and startups/FBI/NSA/think tanks. Cook issues public apology and manages to steer Apple around contempt of court citations.

Apple subsequently releases dramatically hardened iPhone 7/iOS to insanely great rate of sales/adoption worldwide in the last half of 2016.

Special Congressional Committee on encryption forms, meets and is not able to comprehend the engineering complexities of the matter, much less reach consensus balancing legitimate competing interests. Issue continues to be played out in the courts, both judicial and of public opinion.

Some US 2016 Presidential candidates propose a Constitutional Amendment. Case finally wends its way to SCOTUS in 2019, shortly after extreme Congressional focus regarding views on cybersecurity of the newly-appointed and approved Justice (the new litmus test).

NSA continues to pretend it can't crack an iPhone.

Can kicked down the road indefinitely.

THE END.