Re: Completely pointless anyway (@Crazy Operations Guy)
Well, MDM is quite often used to deploy policies and enable provisioning/wiping company data (its own apps for instance). It can thus enforce locking and other security policies, but it can't unlock your phone per se (well, they can factory reset/wipe it if so configured, but it wouldn't help in this case, quite the contrary) - they need PIN IIRC, not MDM password (which could be remotely reset).
Or it can for instance monitor phone's location, but FBI has better data from cell phone operator, so such a feature is not that useful here either, IMHO.
I can't see how even reasonably configured MDM could possibly help here. Having said that I completely agree with your first paragraph.
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