I've been reading some court decisions regarding technology lately and they're not impossible to follow. It's not all legal speak. There's some reason in judg

I've been reading some court decisions regarding technology lately and they're not impossible to follow. It's not all legal speak. There's some reason in judgements and magistrates are generally verbose in their statements. I'm not a lawyer either but I think any reasonable person could see that forcing Apple to give away its source code and signing key would present Apple with some significant security burdens. It's very similar to what Apple was previously arguing, except the DOJ just made Apple's case stronger because there's the added element of risk that the FBI could now be the ones to let the modified signed software get out into the wild. In the former situation, Apple was in charge of security of the back door, so there was only one escape hatch, so to speak, and they're the experts (which the FBI Director has noted many times). If Apple were to hand over the source code, the FBI's systems become another target of attack by hackers. It was a really dumb statement by the DOJ. They intended to sound commanding, but they just weakened their case and helped Apple.