&gt; For me, this boils down to whether or not people are allowed to have strong encryption.<p>That&#x27;s an absurd point of view because the phone in question doesn&#x27;t have strong encryption(1). If it did, there would be no way for Apple to trivially bypass it.<p>(1) Well it kind of does but by encouraging the use of an incredibly weak password it defeats the purpose of having any encryption at all really. If the San Bernardino shooters had used a real password we wouldn&#x27;t be having this discussion.