&gt; It&#x27;s not &quot;unlocking&quot; anyway, it&#x27;s exposing the phones to an opportunity of cracking them open. A non-trivial time-consuming task, hardly the domain of opportunistic hackers with stolen iPhones.<p>Semantic nit picking aside, it takes a trivial amount of time for a computer electronically submitting passwords to crack a 4 digit code.<p>&gt; &quot;Backdoor&quot; is not what is being asked for, so they shouldn&#x27;t use the word &quot;backdoor&quot;.<p>More semantic nit picking. They&#x27;re asking for Apple to write software to disable the very security features that make the 4 digit passcode secure.<p>&gt; Make it so a computer needs 50 years to crack a password, even with electronic brute force. Then it wouldn&#x27;t matter whether the self-destruct kicked in or not.<p>Says the armchair security expert.<p>&gt; Apple helping crack this phone will help us get there.<p>No, it won&#x27;t. All it will do is open a new security hole where one didn&#x27;t exist previously.