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Your comparison is flawed. The owner of the phone is the company the terrorist worked for; they gave the go-ahead. This is like if you shot 20 people and the owner of your safe reverts to the company you worked for, who bought it for you. The company tells the FBI "Yes, you can search it." FBI realizes they can't open it, so they go to the locksmith who made the safe, and he refuses to open it because "WELL IT MIGHT COMPROMISE SECURITY FOR EVERY OTHER SAFE I MADE" despite the fact the key will never leave his office. The FBI has the power to make Apple create the firmware, as they are the only people on the planet who can make it, making it would not be an undue burden (it's a software company making software), and the reason is just (any reasonable person can see why the FBI wants access to a phone used by actual terrorists who actually killed people). All the FBI is asking Apple to do is to make a firmware update for this one phone so they can crack that fucker open. The order even says they have to do this on Apple's property, that they can remove the firmware before they send the unlocked phone back to them, and that the firmware doesn't have to leave Apple's property. Apple can destroy it after the phone is unlocked. Or they can spread it far and wide. It's their choice. All the doomsday talk about the FBI having the key to your iPhone is fucking moot because they won't even have the fucking key. Apple will. This shouldn't even be a fucking issue. The only reason Apple is refusing is because they think it will hurt their brand and are spinning this into "FBI WANTS US TO HACK INTO YOUR IPHONES! ISN'T THAT AWFUL? BET MICROSOFT WOULDN'T TAKE A STAND..." Fucking slimy rats. You literally could not make a more just and constitutional order than this if you tried. Here's the order itself. Pages 19, 20, and 25 contain the important bits, but you should read it all. Funnily enough, this might lead to phones becoming less secure.

I was a kid going to a school called Saint something or others Home of the Eternally Clenched Fist. They taught....I dunno. Magic or something. Mostly I remember the dress code involved spiked collars and wristbands (spikes pointing inwards) and unless you were doing something for a class (like firing a sniper rifle) you had to clench your fists as hard as possible. Also there was a kraken involved. And magic items could be bought.

Yeah from the context of the story I understood that this would be an update for all iphones somehow. If it's just for the terrorist's phone then there is just no argument