SamuelRSmith said:
It's not a warrant for data. It's a warrant forcing them to force their engineers to make something. Engineers that will now be subject to the interests of every hostile Government and criminal organisation in the world. You understand how valuable their knowledge would be? |
A danger they are already in, by being engineers at Apple. They could just as easily be whisked away by one of these nefarious foreign Governments/Criminal Organizations and be brutally tortured in perpetuity to do whatever the hell said individuals want.
You also fail to explain how these engineers escaped the clear and present danger to their lives, over the past decade+ that Apple's phones have had market dominance. Especially given that the world over has known they have the capacity to breach said devices, up until they altered the software in 2014.
I liken this to the GoP in the US, altering voting laws to prevent voter fraud, when the volume of voter fraud is so small it couldn't effect the outcome of a village election, let alone a nationwide election. Likewise here, it's quite clear Apple only did this to try and absolve themselves from any responsibility in assisting the Government in criminal cases where an absurdly narrow focus warrants access (which, frankly, I don't have words for how disgusting that is).
