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Apple fires legal salvo at FBI for using All Writs law in iPhone brouhaha

floppy

safe cracking

I can't understand why Apple is resisting a logical attempt by law-enforcement to gain access to files of a known criminal, whether he be a terrorist or not.

What is asked for is in essence no different then the police engaging a locksmith to open a locked door or a locked safe.

What Apple seems to be implying is that the agents of law and order cannot be trusted not abuse a tool that (probably already exists in the development labs in Cupertino) even though any access would logically be controlled by the courts.

I have a sense that Apple sees itself and the users of its products above the the law and is attempting to abuse the right to privacy (which is itself a relatively new concept in law) in order to impune the same courts that created that same right to privacy upon which Apple bases its resistance.

No one manufacturer can place itself and its product above a reasonable request of the government in the course of the protection of the people. Technology must be subservient to the laws of the community.

Stating otherwise is 21-st century egotism extended ad absurdam!

Shame on you, Apple!