Honestly, assuming that Apple had a magic way of getting to the information on the phone that is guaranteed to not be exploited (Tim Cook's fingerprint or somet

Honestly, assuming that Apple had a magic way of getting to the information on the phone that is guaranteed to not be exploited (Tim Cook's fingerprint or something. Bad example for obvious reasons ;).... is there another issue here? From where I stand, the argument against bulk data collection was "they need a warrant! and not from some kangaroo court!". Here, the government has a warrant, for this specific phone. Apple is defending itself because (as sibling mentioned) it's likely that if Apple acted on this request in the ordered way that there's a very high chance of undermining all iPhone security. But absent the (very important) technical context , do people really have a problem with the FBI wanting to look at the phone's data? If there was no encryption I doubt there would be much of a debate here. If you couldn't get a warrant for the phone used by a guy who just shot up a bunch of people, I don't know what you could get a warrant for.