> Similar "prevention" rationale is offered for governments to spy on virtually all telecom all the time, now. But this shooting happened anyway. 1) Anyone wit

> Similar "prevention" rationale is offered for governments to spy on virtually all telecom all the time, now. But this shooting happened anyway. 1) Anyone with a plan promised to stop all terrorist attacks is lying to you, stupid, or both. You can't have a free society and a 0% chance of political violence. 2) Yes, searching the possessions and communications of dead terrorists unsurprisingly are substantially more likely to lead to useful criminal leads than reading your metadata. A warrant to read this person's stuff isn't unreasonable in the slightest, an order forcing apple to do shit might be but that's a procedural thing unrelated to the core issue of "is there a good reason to read this person's stuff"