What do you think about Apple's decision to appeal's the FBI order of hacking into the iPhone?

If the government is going to get in the business of forcing individuals or companies to do extra work to break into the property of US citizens, then we are going down the wrong path. This case isn't about turning over information, it's about forcing Apple to build an entire new operating system which could make millions of iPhones vulnerable. Yes, in this case the US citizen was a terrorist, but undermining the Constitution is not the appropriate way to respond to terrorism. What's next? Forcing friends to break into their friends' homes to collect information on them? Or forcing companies to plant bugs in private citizens' places because they have access to it?

Forcing a person or an entity to break into something is not part of search and seizure rights. If the government wants to, it can contract with a security company to break into whatever they think is legal, but it should be a voluntary contract. Forcing people, or organizations, to break into things against their will, is not something a free democratic country does.

What happens when Apple just can't do it? I know Apple spend millions of dollars in reverse engineering to actively hack into their own devices to ensure they are secure.

If I make safes that are designed to destroy their contents if someone attempts to break into them, because I want to guarantee MY customers their security and privacy, that is considered reasonable.

If the government then ordered me to open said safe without the contents being destroyed, how would you as a customer who purchased my safe feel?

What if that method could be repeated for ALL of my safes in the future?

What if there was no way to ensure that no one else was able to use that same method, essentially creating a set of "master keys" which was counter to the intent of the safes I had designed in the first place?

All that said, does anyone here actually TRUST our Government with this capability? Does anyone believe that they are capable of safeguarding our information, letting alone the "keys to the castle?"