Apple probably should have considered their own fallibility and the value of a working relationship with the FBI before launching a scorched-earth PR campaign.

Apple probably should have considered their own fallibility and the value of a working relationship with the FBI before launching a scorched-earth PR campaign. If the FBI could rely on Apple to provide assistance when presented with a court order, they would have no reason to keep such a method private -- or to even find and use it in the first place. Tim Cook does not come across as a sufficiently prescient CEO in this boondoggle.