It&#x27;s not about the government getting access to a tool like this, Apple specifically doesn&#x27;t want to create a tool that can easily defeat its own security, to then hand over to the FBI. The government has, on numerous occasions, shown it has some pretty horrible practises in securing information, and this kind of tool being let out into the wild is bad for For everyone (not just Apple).<p>Why risk opening that Pandora&#x27;s box? If the tool doesn&#x27;t exist, it can&#x27;t be exploited by bad actors