&gt; <i>We too often fall into the trap of thinking that people must understand technical details of some thing X in order to understand implications of related thing Y.</i><p>Is that what you got from my post? Because it&#x27;s not what I meant at all. I don&#x27;t believe people have to understand the <i>technical details</i> behind it, but they do have to understand that the FBI forcing an unlock sets a very bad precedent which would massively diminish the security of the iphone&#x2F;next iphone and this would apply to <i>everybody</i>, not just the tewwowist, AND that they&#x27;re using a super old obscure shady law to back all that. There is a lot of data to understand and you can&#x27;t easily grasp that from a single, short sentence.