But the reason for the police being able to search you in the first place is to investigate crime because of the harm it causes to society. That needs to be ba

But the reason for the police being able to search you in the first place is to investigate crime because of the harm it causes to society. That needs to be balanced against the harm such searches cause. If the harm caused by searches goes up, what changes to balance that? You're taking the law as a given and saying that society must bend because the law has been constant for many hundred years. But that's a bug. Yes, the systems for change are rusty and those in power would rather inflict the wrong laws than allow them to change, but the point in this discussion is more than what can Apple get away with now, but what should they strive for. In that sense, what should the law be to best serve people who feel that Apple is right in creating "unhackable" phones?