&gt; &quot;[...] to more easily break into [...]<p>That&#x27;s where your analogy breaks down. This hardly makes it easier. If North Korea or FBI or NSA or a criminal organization wanted to break into your iPhone, and this backdoor existed and was distributed, they would have to externally flash it with firmware and then hook up a controller that tricks the digitizer so that they can brute force the passcode, trying each one synchronously on a shitty mobile processor SoC.<p>Is that really less complicated than externally reading the memory itself and using John the Ripper and a supercomputer? Is it meaningfully less complicated?