content: Compelled decryption raises significant Fifth Amendment issues  It's quite an illustration of the blatant dishonesty of the authorities that they explicitly state that they cannot compel the individual to unlock the phone without violating the Fifth Amendment, so they're going to try to force the company to unlock the phone instead.  The government should not be required to pursue a path for obtaining evidence that might lead to suppression.   Nobody's "required" them to pursue ANY path to obtaining evidence.  They've chosen to do so.  And the fact that they then run up against legal restrictions is nobody's problem but their own. The dishonesty is so blatant it's astonishing.  There are moments when, cynical though I am, I just can't believe that I live in a world in which such vividly lying sacks of shit actually have power. If humanity survives, people in the future are going to look back on our era with the same mix of fascination and revulsion with which we look at Middle Ages witch burning.  The degree to which current society is irrational, and under the control of sincerely deranged individuals, is simply amazing.  It shouldn't even be possible.