"Sorry Tim , I think you draw the wrong line. Supporting terrorism is just plain wrong. Any righteous person has nothing to hide from the government.
As far as I understood the FBI needs access to just this phone. I think Apple blew this for marketing reasons entirely out of proportion. If they (Apple) are able to access the data on that phone they should just help the FBI in a way that this is a one time only event. The FBI can deliver this phone to apple and they could have pulled the data off the phone in one of their secret labs and then hand back the phone and separately the data. No need to give the FBI a general key.
Fantastic Apple..now you become the preferred communication supplier for terrorists.
Again - I think there is no need for a generic back door key for the FBI or any other authority. Once a federal agency has physical access to a suspects phone and they do have a legal warrant from a judge to search this Apple should support the authorities by access the data on their site and handing back data and phone as separate entities without giving a generic key.
What you are missing is the fact that according to Apple, this 'backdoor' doesn't exist in any form, and to create it would be a huge mistake as once its out there, whether in a secure lab at Apple or the FBI, someone involved with the creation would ultimately succumb to pressure, beit financial or worse to reveal those secrets and thus making the backdoor accessible to anyone!
Right now Apple are stating that even they cannot access this information. Period.
To ask them to create software that WOULD allow them access would ultimately undo all the good they have done in regard to security.
Hypothetically, if this backdoor were to be created and the FBI find that there is nothing of interest on the device then wouldn't that be horrific?
Remember the invention of the first nuclear weapons....
In a 1965 television broadcast about the moments following the Trinity test, Oppenheimer said: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the
Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
And now this tech is in the hands of people who the majority of the world know are unstable enough or deluded enough to use it!
Mac OS 10.12 so Apple seems to be pretty good at keeping secrets.
