I personally want the law to say that but: The FBI took a different view in a recent court case referencing the All Writs act of 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/

I personally want the law to say that but: The FBI took a different view in a recent court case referencing the All Writs act of 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... but dropped it when they unlocked the device by other means., and the issue hasn't really made it through the court system, so it's unclear what the law requires. Until a federal case gets to the appeals court level it basically won't establish any binding precedent in other cases under stare decisis.