&gt; We&#x27;re talking about cracking a 4 digit access code of a phone, which is extremely easy.<p>Technically, it&#x27;s obviously not just a 4-digit access code that prevents FBI to unlock the phone, otherwise they wouldn&#x27;t demand Apple to produce the whole new version of their iOS and setup them special access only to enable that.<p>And even more important, the legal basis they claim to have is the &quot;we can do anything&quot; sentence from 1789:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11165699" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11165699</a><p>There&#x27;s nothing about the obligation of companies to do something specific there, certainly not about changing their own products or making the new ones.