[downandout]

It's the government's fault that this is a feature that companies would a) build and b) market as a key feature. The public finds this attractive because of their nefarious activities. We reap what we sow.

The benefits of being able to crack phones quickly in the few cases where it is in the public interest to do so do not outweigh the harm that would be done to the public if it were possible. Further, the types of people that really want to harm us are using third party or custom tools that encrypt everything anyway.

The feds and local police will lose a few more low-level drug cases, and maybe a few insider trading cases, due to Apple's security enhancements. I'm OK with that.