What if Apple was in the business of safes and built a really strong to crack safe. There would be 10 attempts to open it or all the content would catch on fire.
Is it unheard of that the government would seek the help of that kind of company in similar cases ?<p>The argument that the newly-developed technique could be stolen by unwanted adversaries is the same. In both cases the government has to get hold of the physical object to crack the (digital) safe.