It's Not Just The iPhone Law Enforcement Wants To Unlock

A Q&A with Manhattan Defense Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. When asked to summarize his argument that Apple should comply with the court order from the federal government and build the technology needed to open this particular phone, Vance said, "Our inability, as a result of Apple's engineering its phones to make it impossible for them to use a digital key to open a phone, has left us in a place where we are simply unable to perform our function to protect the public." He continued, "We started tracking the number of iOS 8 devices that we cannot access as a result of Apple's decision in late 2014. And over that year-and-a-half time period, there are now 175 phones that we cannot access out of a universe of 670 phones that our cyber lab has evaluated. So it's about a quarter of the phones we haven't been able to get into."