&gt; What does that even mean &quot;Cancer software&quot;? Seems like PR bullshit to me.<p>Tim&#x27;s addressing the wider public (i.e. not tech professionals) and explains what he means in context, i.e. its bad software, something they would never write or should ever be forced to write.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve got a hard time believing that apple can&#x27;t crack their own phone.<p>You&#x27;ve said you know they can and are now saying you don&#x27;t believe that they can&#x27;t. So how exactly should they decrypt encrypted data without the pass code it was encrypted with?<p>&gt; do they mean that THIS phone is impossible to crack, but that would let other phones be crackable in the future?<p>No, it&#x27;s been stated a number of times including being written in the Court Order that they can create a new version of iOS without software protections that allows the FBI to brute force the pass code electronically. This is the whole premise of the legal precedent, whether or not the FBI can compel Apple to write software that doesn&#x27;t yet exist to create a new version of iOS with a backdoor that the FBI can exploit.<p>But they wont be able to do this with future iPhone&#x27;s that are hardware protected by the secure enclave.