&gt;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>Only if Apple stupidly wrote a generic firmware that could run on any iPhone and then lost it. That risk is essentially zero.<p>If Apple reasonably complied with the order, it would be as dangerous as any other Apple update, which is to say not dangerous at all.<p>&gt;Seriously, it boggles the mind that they are asking for the security to be weakened, because terrorists.<p>In this case, there is no weakening.