Whether they get a warrant or not is orthogonal to the question of whether they ultimately succeed in breaking security for virtually everyone and everything.

Whether they get a warrant or not is orthogonal to the question of whether they ultimately succeed in breaking security for virtually everyone and everything. In other words this notion of “get a warrant or pound sand” ignores that even with a robust legal warrant-requiring regime, they still would need to require back doors (key escrow, effectively the same thing) that would screw up security royally in order to get what they want.