There no (or almost none) Muslims in Japan. Why should the Japanese worry? Guys like Farook and his wife are a Western problem.
I think this the only way to make everyone satisfied. FBI I'm sure want the back door code or system. Apple will think of something.
Perhaps they will be, but only after the currently hamstrung Supreme Court ends the appeal process and only if they still stubbornly refuse. If and when Apple caves, the Chinese, Russian and other unsavoury security apparats will be first in line to get the same access, by hook, crook or collegial sharing.
All governments play by the same rules; rules are what defines them — until they try out new rules. The only differentiating factor among governments is the resistance of their citizens to serving the arbitrary needs of that government without concomitant, demonstrated proof their government is serving them.
As a guess, the chain of custody thing requires the FBI to be the ones collecting the data.
It's the FBI and NSA doing the fearmongering, claiming that the citizens can only be kept safe — from who or what they do not specify — by constant surveillance both wide and deep.
Might be a logical argument if Apple, Google, etc, weren't already engaged of constant surveillance of their customers.
Sorry, guess San Bernardino, 9/11, Major Hasan, etc. never happened. Then there are all those thwarted plots.
Apple has said that they do give information when requested, and have done so 7 times before with the FBI. This time they said they couldn't do it because the password had been changed since the phone was in the hands of the FBI.
They happened, and all that spying illegal and legal didn't help one bit to stop any of it. So the spy agencies are trying to scare us into giving them even more secret power we must never question (and can't question) to spy on everyone, just like the Stasi had. Did they keep the wall from falling? Secret police oppress their society, they do not defend it.
