I&#x27;m not OP, but the gist of his argument is you cannot be secure against the government if you cannot be secure against Apple first. If Apple continues to <i>force</i> people to trust it, the government will subvert this trust via legal means.<p>I find the argument quite congent. It&#x27;s not getting lost in the weeeds, but generalizing the problem; instead of just fixing this bug, why not go ahead and fix the whole class of possible bugs?