Because Apple realizes (rightfully so), that it&#x27;s a slippery slope.<p>The only way to prevent a tool from being misused is to not create that tool in the first place.<p>If you _love_ that Apple is making it so hard for unauthorized access to your device, why do you also think they should create a tool that allows unauthorized access to your device? Are you so sure that you&#x27;ll never be on the wrong end of a government fishing expedition?<p>I&#x27;m generally law abiding, yet I still don&#x27;t think the government should be able to view my private records just because my name came up on some secret watchlist that I&#x27;m not allowed to know about and could entirely be because my name matches someone else&#x27;s name.<p>The only reason the FBI didn&#x27;t ask that Apple fully decrypt the device is because they know that bruteforcing a small keyspace is trivial if the device doesn&#x27;t have countermeasures - not because they thought they were overstepping the bounds of their request.