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russ_watters said:No. The motion explicitly states that the FBI is willing to work with Apple to come up with a mutually agreeable solution. It is within Apple's power to comply with this request in a way that utterly prevents the FBI from gaining the tool itself.
Of course. But that has nothing to do with this case, because that isn't on the table. It isn't a possible outcome of this case.
Reasonable need? What Apple has done is totally unprecedented as far as I can tell* - at least I've never heard of a computer company not installing a back-door to their software. I consider the need to conduct reasonable searches and seizures to be a "reasonable need".
The government has done a really poor job lately keeping the info they have secure. It is entirely foreseeable that any back doors they have into electronic communications will also be accessed by third parties with criminal intent. It is widely agreed in the technical community that making back doors only the good guys can access is impossible.