Do people actually understand the implications of this order?
This isn't a search warrant, or a request for data. It's a mandate for Apple to write code. Considering that code is considered speech, and compelled speech is a violation of the first amendment, we already have strike 1.
Apple isn't some magic entity. If they were to comply with this order, they would have to force their very best security experts to write this code. In many cases, engineers who have dedicated their lives to things like digital security. How many will comply? How many will simply quit? Not hard to find jobs in that space these days.
How much damage would this do to Apple? First there's the cost of engineering this change, then there's potential lost sales, and then there's the costs that Apple will have to face when they send their engineers to court to testify in cases where this backdoor is used. How many software engineers signed up for that?
Also, it's completely pointless going forward. When you outlaw encryption, only the outlaws will have encryption. It's no different to guns or drugs. Anybody can load third party encryption apps onto their phones, that's impossible to block. The only people harmed by this would be the regular consumer.
And come on..... what are they hoping to find? The massacre was two months ago. Anybody involved in that will have left the country, or changed identities. Nothing of use will be on that phone.
Finally, you can not guarantee that the software will only stay in Apple's hands. You have any idea what the market value of that thing will be? People ain't saints. You're just asking for it to be sold into the black market.
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