It won&#x27;t make phones less secure in any technological sense. Defeating the 5C&#x27;s passcode counter is a capability Apple has today, and DOJ is willing to allow Apple to bypass it on Apple&#x27;s own premises rather than providing DOJ with an image that does it.<p>The kind of insecurity people are talking about is a policy concern; people will feel less secure if Apple can be compelled to exploit their capability this way.<p>That&#x27;s a valid concern, but it&#x27;s not a concern that really touches on how much more the &quot;token IT person&quot; knows than a layperson with little technical knowledge.<p>It annoys me a lot when people in technology deploy special- pleading logic like this.