While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would
be wrong for the government to force us to build a
backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that
this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty
our government is meant to protect.
Tim Cook
Kudos to this guy for standing up to an idea.
Now on practical notes, this is about security, providing a digitally secure platform to both users and providers, prevent tampering, keeping data secure.
The court order says Apple should make the software only work on the specific phone in question. Nobody could modify the software to work on other phones any more than they could make the changes to iOS themselves.
Apple is misrepresenting the situation and perhaps it's because they're afraid that in the future the government will come knocking again, but I think it hurts them to not be completely above-board about this.
Thanks for the heads up about these details.
As you mention if you agree to one request you agree to all requests plus proving you can do it.
A nice side effect of agreeing to this request would be to put an update that closes all the loops that allowed to perform the request on first place.
Now on practical notes, this is about security, providing a digitally secure platform to both users and providers, prevent tampering, keeping data secure.
Microsoft could take a cue.