The problem is, Apple designs the software, loads it onto the device, and gives it to the government so they can do their brute force on it.<p>What&#x27;s preventing the government from just copying the software off the device and keeping it for themselves?  Obviously they&#x27;d have to do some work to make it universal, but do we really think an agency with pretty much unlimited budget, and brilliant mathematicians, couldn&#x27;t get it done?