I believe your comment is a really important dimension to the conversation. It has been proven the government could copy the encrypted filesystem of Farook's ph

I believe your comment is a really important dimension to the conversation. It has been proven the government could copy the encrypted filesystem of Farook's phone and use this copy to brute force it if they wanted to. What they are asking Apple to do is just make the brute forcing easier which implies this all comes down to mere expediency. Policing is only supposed to be easy in a Police State.