It&#x27;s tricky. The All Writs Act clearly must have some boundaries as to reasonableness and the due process of the defendant.<p>What Apple is being asked to do here isn&#x27;t simply to unlock a phone. They&#x27;re being asked to use their engineers, money, and expertise to build a tool to defeat the very encryption they developed.<p>It&#x27;s not clear the All Writs Act enables the government to simply order a search warrant recipient to create new technology for them.