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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Well, first, it's obvious that Apple can make this tool if it wants to. It's their product. So whether or not they're trustworthy seems immaterial to me.
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Apple can make whatever product it likes, absolutely. But if it is going to trade its name on security, creating such a backdoor would destroy its reputation.
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But aside from that, you're now moving the goal posts: is your concern that the government can't be trusted, or that if Apple develops this someone's going to get ahold of the records that show how they did it and reproduce their work?
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I don't think we're moving the goalposts so much as you're coming to realize there is more than one issue at play. I neither trust the government nor do I trust that such a tool could be kept secure.
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I would suggest that a company that can make an impenetrable phone can at least keep its own information secure, if they really want to.
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The issue there is scale. One user with one iphone has small risk of breach at present. Largely, falling to social engineering or failing to lock the phone in the first place. Move up to a multinational company level with thousands of employees, and the risk of exposure grows dramatically. This despite the fact that Apple probably spends more money on security than many governments. All it can take is one dummy who doesn't follow internal security protocols, one flaw in one of the systems Apple uses, or even one rogue sysop or developer. It's actually pretty much the same risk, just with many more potential points of failure.