I&#x27;m aware of all that, your summary wasn&#x27;t needed, and is lacking your personal opinion! &quot;I think&quot; is not a bad thing to say once in a while.<p>I&#x27;ll take a guess that your position is identical to Apple&#x27;s recent letter on the matter.<p>I think Apple should help unlock these phones, with the condition that such help may be impossible in future versions of the OS. Who wouldn&#x27;t want future versions of iOS to prevent these requests from being possible even with Apple&#x27;s intervention? How that can be achieved I don&#x27;t know. Perhaps some fancy new hardware chip that kills the phone at any sign of tampering. I&#x27;d vote for that, most people would, but the FBI would hate it.<p>The crucial point is getting as much of the public on side as possible. Most people  would support increased security and privacy measures for their phones. They would feel threatened by legislation denying Apple or others the right to improve security for customers, meaning such legislation would unlikely pass.<p>By fighting this current situation, Apple are putting themselves in an awkward situation of &quot;not helping criminal investigation&quot; which is not easy to get everyone on side if you&#x27;re not being helpful.<p>It&#x27;s a bit like chess, and Apple might have done better to make their move at a later time, first helping with these iPhones, then shutting the door on that option in later OS releases. &quot;Sorry, it&#x27;s encrypted inside and out, no way in, that&#x27;s how good the security is, because that&#x27;s what our customers wanted&quot; would be impressive, and hard to defeat with new legislation.<p>So Apple should comply now, and make a better chess move later. I could be wrong, but that&#x27;s what I think for now :)