You have to dumb down some of the technical aspects but this isn't a particularly complicated topic. Think about something like climate change or vaccinations.

You have to dumb down some of the technical aspects but this isn't a particularly complicated topic. Think about something like climate change or vaccinations. You probably have no actual idea how it all works. But with some explanations you can understand the gist of the technical sides of those issues. The main disconnect between the tech crowd and the general public isn't technical knowledge but values. A lot of people in the tech community put a lot value on absolute privacy or secrecy. The general public doesn't. Especially in a case where the privacy or secret information is to a 100% certainty related to an actual mass murdering terrorist. I'd bet if anything, the general public would overestimate the privacy risk the apple crack would cause. They don't know about signed updates, for example.