&gt; Yes, I am trusting that.<p>&gt; The government absolutely should not be trusted.<p>You&#x27;re contradicting yourself.<p>&gt; So are you.<p>No I&#x27;m not. The keys will be acquired when necessary, if they haven&#x27;t already.<p>&gt; If they had the signing key they wouldn&#x27;t need to ask Apple for anything.<p>That would be true if the goal was to gather forensic data from a single phone. As I stated above, it&#x27;s foolish to look at this situation in isolation. The FBI&#x27;s (and other government agencies) <i>history</i> of trying to restrict encryption and gain access to communication technologies says the government has other goals.<p>You might have noticed that there has been a propaganda campaign going for a while now that has been framing encryption as a &quot;terrorist tool&quot; that is causing law enforcement&#x27;s investigations to &quot;go dark&quot;. The goal isn&#x27;t the phone; this is about framing Apple (and Silicon Valley in general) as impediments to public safety.