I don't have a problem with legitimate inquiries into crime, with probable cause, approved by an independent whose role is to safeguard against needless intrusi

I don't have a problem with legitimate inquiries into crime, with probable cause, approved by an independent whose role is to safeguard against needless intrusions by the government. I don't believe in legally requiring code to be insecure through backdoors, extrajudicious dragnet "intelligence," or other deeply disturbing secret police BS authoritarian strains of the intelligence communtiy seem to be advocating. If they can open the phone with or without Apple's help is almost irrelevant. What matters is if they have gone through an accountable process to gain legal authorization to open it. On the other hand, the fact that the FBI used this to gain legal powers in the vein of the burning of the Reichstag is unacceptable.