I&#x27;m actually wondering this, too. Is there a technological reason why Apple fulfilling this request makes their (not subject-to-warrant) customers less secure? Why isn&#x27;t their private code-signing key the linchpin?<p>I fully buy that there are legal, cultural, and diplomatic reasons that this could make Apple&#x27;s customers less secure in the long run by setting a precedent, etc.<p>I guess one argument is that whatever code they write to tie the &quot;weaponized&quot; iOS update to a particular device could have bugs.