&gt; And it would only be doing it on a single phone.<p>No, it would not. New custom software has to be developed. Software that can then fall into the wrong hands, from crooks with stolen phones, to nation states.<p>Seriously, it boggles the mind that they are asking for the security to be weakened, because terrorists. But they are not concerned that said terrorists will then be able to use the same software to crack their phones. Or Russia, or China. Maybe they are counting on the fact that it (for now) requires physical access?