content: Pardon me but i see a hell of a lot of problems here.  What they are demanding is that Apple creates ad update to their iPhones that break a key security feature in their system effectively making a backdoor in their system to fuck with their users. What are the problems?  The first problem is that the government can force you to work in their place, to fix their incompetence, even breaking your own products. This is beyond stupid, this actually means that you are a fucking property of your government and that they can make you do whatever they like, even go against your own moral values, your interests or, in this case, your credibility, even if you are not a criminal nor did anything wrong. Please note that this will have consequences on Apple's credibility worldwide and throw more distrust on anything "made in USA" around the world. The second problem is that while the encryption algorithm used in iPhones can actually be uncrackable the chosen unlocking password is almost certainly short for practical purposes... this means that without the 10 attempts security system the whole "unbreakable cryptography"-thing is pretty much useless because it can be breaked in a matter of days or hours by bruteforce... since an iPhone will only accept correctly signed updates from Apple this means that only Apple can make such a backdoor... but once this backdoor is made... well... it is only a matter of time before it falls in the wrong hands. Even if you trust your government, and i don't lets be clear on this, creating such a dangerous thing is just stupid because it removes an important part of the built-in security in iPhones. The third problem is that technology is becoming an important part in our private life. We already give to our smartphones a lot of our own private life (private pictures, private conversations, private thoughts, the list of all our friends and family members, etc) this will be even more dangerous in the future, when technology will become part of us (and it will). Think if you can augment your memory by implanting a chip in your brain, or some other interface that might, one day, let the government literally access all the contents of your memory... what will happen is that this will be used as a precedent to force whatever company behind it to comply and break into your brain. Forget the fifth amendment...  We have to fight against these things NOW that it is still possible... or it will become "common practice" and hurt us in unbelievable ways tomorrow.  So yeah, i MUCH prefer that a million terrorists get away with it than to give the government such power over my private life. I trust terrorists more than i do of my own government after all the damage a terrorist can do is minimal if compared to the damage a government can do.