Apple can comply with the FBI court order
I know my opinion is probably not popular, but if there was a way for Apple to physically install a firmware on a single device to allow for brute-forcing and if Apple did that in response to a direct court order, then this is probably the best compromise we can get.<p>I really believe that there should be a way for law-enforcement to get access to specific devices in response to a court order as long as the solution doesn&#x27;t involve weakening the encryption for everybody else.<p>I&#x27;m absolutely against backdoors, secret* keys or similar crap. But physically access a single device in order to make brute-forcing it possible, that seems acceptable to me as that won&#x27;t affect any other device.<p>That would be similar to a court order allowing law enforcement to enter your premises and take out the safe in order to pry it open at some other location where specialised equipment is available.<p>If this is all law enforcement wants, then maybe it&#x27;s time to hand this over before law enforcement wants even more which will doubtless pave the way for mass surveillance of devices.<p>* until they leak. Then everybody has access.