&gt; The debate is fairly pointless, govt will do whatever they want anyway.<p>Clearly they never had problem with that. The problem they have is that it takes NSA up to 8 months to crack a key for one single iPhone, and the list of crack-awaiting devices grows every day.<p>That&#x27;s is what they are truly complaining about and as others pointed - they try to use this case of supposedly pro-terrorist Apple to force them to give out the key that would open any and all other I-devices.<p>I bet a bottom dollar if Apple asks to hand the device and they will retrieve info off of it, FBI would come up to every possible excuse -- including the one that the cannot trust Apple employees -- not to hand it over. They want the KEY, not any other way around!