&gt;&gt; but if Apple creates this tool (that can be applied to any phone (or at least a large subset of their phones)), it&#x27;s essentially the same as if the decryption tool were present in every phone, even ones sold before the commission of a crime.<p>This concept I find interesting.  If Apple did have the <i>ability</i> to create this tool, then is there much of a difference?<p>I guess the difference is whether Apple were to give such a tool to the FBI, rather than creating it, extracting the data and deleting the tool.  But who is to say that some clever individual can&#x27;t create their own tool to achieve the same thing.<p>Until Apple deliver on their desire to create phones you can&#x27;t decrypt, I would therefore consider all iphones vulnerable.