(To play devils advocate, coming from the perspective of my retired LEO friend)<p>legal warrants can we written to seize guns which can then be tested and information extracted from them.<p>Legal warrants can be written to search and seize cars, so they can be searched and extensively examined to extract information&#x2F;evidence from them.<p>The argument goes that right now, warrants can be written to gain access to basically everything a criminal has&#x2F;owns&#x2F;has been in contact with so that it can all be gobbled up and analyzed.<p>People supporting the government in this believe the same is true for digital data - they don&#x27;t care that it&#x27;s on a phone or laptop or &quot;online&quot;, they just think a warrant should let the government access it. If Apple can do it, then they must.<p>(Note I don&#x27;t personally agree with that, but I understand it)