FBI asks to make new secret filing in Clinton email case

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12. I'm sorry, but that makes no sense.

Apple phones are easy to break. Period. That whole episode was to get carte-blanche access anytime they need using a backdoor (although, via snowden, we already know the US Gov't has full access using nefarious methods.)

Take exhibit #1 where the FBI gets a third party to hack the phone (duh!).

And here's DriveSavers doing data recovery from encrypted iPhones all day, everyday:

Once you know how microcontrollers and microchips, I2C bus, etc all work.. it's the same all over.. Apple is not special, they use the same hardware as everyone else.

As far as your ideas about encryption, well, I thought it was pretty much common knowledge now that encryption is essentially only good for non-gov't entities. Gov't has been "weakening" encryption for it's own needs so that it can be brute forced fairly easily using supercomputers (or even less-powered machines):
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
http://www.rsaconference.com/blogs/can-a-government-encryption-backdoor-and-privacy-coexist
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3040206/security/attack-against-tls-shows-the-pitfalls-of-weakening-encryption.html

So, no, to me your premise is not correct at all.