They don&#x27;t really leave it out of the equation, though they don&#x27;t explicitly state how it factors in. The issue is that a high profile case that people want to be prosecuted to the fullest extent is being used as a wedge to force a large undertaking (producing the unsecure firmware) to be made. Future requests from law enforcement on much smaller cases would then <i>only</i> require the smaller undertaking (signing the existing firmware), and resisting that court order would be significantly more difficult.