> as the government could use force to compel a company to hack it's own users. Currently, in the USA, the most generally accepted view among legal scholars is

> as the government could use force to compel a company to hack it's own users. Currently, in the USA, the most generally accepted view among legal scholars is that this is not legal for the government to do -- mainly because of a view that it's a particular form of compelled speech / forced labor which is unconstitutional for the government to compel. It is, however, an avenue that the law enforcement community does occasionally investigate as a possible route to get what they want. There's no clear court ruling as no cases have gone that far.