> I'm not sure I fully agree that things are different because it's physical over digital.
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> I agree that copying software is far easier than hardware, but it's the design of the tool that's important, not it's physical representation.
So you do understand that software is different. It is easily copyable, and all software is copyable.
> The only way I would agree with the FBI's "just this one iPhone" statement is if they got Apple to crack it and they just returned the data but not the method. Which of course they wont do.
I wouldn't even agree to that. Creating a signed copy of this software creates a vulnerability in iPhones worldwide that does not exist today.
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> I agree that copying software is far easier than hardware, but it's the design of the tool that's important, not it's physical representation.
So you do understand that software is different. It is easily copyable, and all software is copyable.
> The only way I would agree with the FBI's "just this one iPhone" statement is if they got Apple to crack it and they just returned the data but not the method. Which of course they wont do.
I wouldn't even agree to that. Creating a signed copy of this software creates a vulnerability in iPhones worldwide that does not exist today.