&gt; Remember this would only apply to phones the government has physical control over and in cases where Apple is compelled by a court.<p>I&#x27;m curious how we can be certain of that.  Granted, this is the &#x27;slippery slope&#x27; argument.<p>A lot of people, myself included, don&#x27;t think the government is interested in ONLY decrypting phones in this class.  They want to decrypt ALL of them, en masse, at will.<p>The hell of it is, as I typed the above, I think of how I would have felt reading those words typed by someone else, 15 years ago.  I&#x27;d assume they were some kind of conspiracy nut.