The whole thing seems like kabuki theatre. I wonder why any of this became public.
Freegards
The FBI made it public with the warrant.
Normally a warrant is to provide the court with something a person actually has.
THIS warrant is special, it required Apple to produce something that didn't exist, to go through great expense to devise and create something that would damage itself.
The kindest technical term for this is indentured servitude, but indentured servants customarily get a stipend while working off their indenture.
This is more like slavery, being forced at the sting of a government lash to design and build a slave ship for the FBI.
Unlike IBM to Hitler's Germany, Apple said no. Would history be better if IBM declined to build the means of tracking every Jew, Gypsy, communist, mental defective, and homosexual in Germany?
What do you think?