&gt; Doesn&#x27;t seem like good timing on the government&#x27;s part to publicly announce the intention to seek numerous iPhone &quot;unlockings&quot;<p>That was my immediate gut reaction, that it looks bad because Apple objections are proving true.<p>But now I wonder if the timing maybe works to their advantage, and the admission they want to use phone cracking everywhere is perhaps a very smart strategy. To technologists and privacy advocates, this might look like an admission of guilt. To the public at large, and the entire country, this might actually be a mountain of evidence that phone cracking is absolutely necessary, something we can&#x27;t do without if otherwise phones are going to become unreadable by the &quot;good guys&quot;.<p>For better or worse (and IMO it&#x27;s worse) this might be a very strong argument with very good timing.