Very unlikely to have any kind of back door. EPA can demand all they want but unless the owner types the correct passcode they are out of luck,
well, actually your well described authentication-protected paragraph was over my head.
I actually had in mind say the EPA and EXXON. I see no difference between the FBI demanding Apple break the encryption on the I phone and say the EPA confiscating EXXON computers and demanding Dell or Microsoft break the encryption to reveal e mail or proprietary secrets thought to be climate change subversive
I see no difference between the hand held and the desk bound computers
There’s a huge difference and it’s very important.
Apple would find it very hard to do this.
I could break Apple’s encryption if I had the key. I tried today, and couldn’t make the phone give up the key.
Other people know the keys. For example, I’m the only person within my company with the key to HIPAA. And that’s fine. That’s how it should be.
Those phones are locked down hard. Very hard.