&gt; I&#x27;m not sure I fully agree that things are different because it&#x27;s physical over digital.<p>...<p>&gt; I agree that copying software is far easier than hardware, but it&#x27;s the design of the tool that&#x27;s important, not it&#x27;s physical representation.<p>So you <i>do</i> understand that software is different.  It is easily copyable, and all software is copyable.<p>&gt; The only way I would agree with the FBI&#x27;s &quot;just this one iPhone&quot; statement is if they got Apple to crack it and they just returned the data but not the method. Which of course they wont do.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t even agree to that.  Creating a signed copy of this software creates a vulnerability in iPhones worldwide that does not exist today.