Their, and Apple’s, arguments: Apple, by creating a new IOS that allowed the FBI to open the phone with brute force, would create a back door that could not be contained and could end up in the wrong hands (SPECTRE?); and The government cannot conscript firms into surveillance upon private citizens. My response to the first claim: If Apple was creating a back door for others to use, it was a pretty unimpressive door. More like a doggy door. Apple estimated that it would take six to ten engineers a month to figure this out.5 That ain’t the Manhattan Project. Apple also maintained this key could
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