Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security
by mindslight on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:45PM
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It could be impossible for Apple of the future to break the security of a device sold by Apple in the present.
Apple can hopefully win this case based on the forced creation aspect. But they'd likely lose the next iteration where the FBI subpoenas technical documentation about the key derivation function, and builds their own hardware to talk to the hardened chip. Of course the FBI has little interest in doing this, because the whole affair is a psyop.
If you want to fully protect your customers, don't design backdoors into your products in the first place!
For example, the government could require Apple to build future iPhone software to permit backdoor access. The question today is whether the government can do so with a court-issued warrant, or whether it will require legislation, as it did with CALEA.