&gt;That&#x27;s not even on the table. Congress passes laws and this case is in court.<p>That&#x27;s exactly my point. If you don&#x27;t want companies to have the ability to put in backdoors, that&#x27;s something you need to get Congress to pass. Not wanting backdoors is not relevant to the legal question here.<p>&gt;The fact is Apple will have to create something that does not yet exist in order to fulfill this request, and there is a risk that that can get out into the wild.<p>As I and others have said, the risk is not increased by the software being created. That&#x27;s not too hard to do. The only thing that can&#x27;t be done is sign the update to install it on the device. There&#x27;s no risk being added by that signing, because Apple anyway signs every new iOS release.<p>If Apple doesn&#x27;t want to create new software, I&#x27;m sure the FBI will be happy for them to hand over the key, and the FBI can create the software themself.