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    Smartphone code is a lot easier to lock, each device comes with identifier, and a bunch of hardware with unique ids. If you know anything about coding, you know you can make that code only work with these unique ids.

    It is so easy to make the tool only work with one phone, it is pathetically easy. Even a brain dead developer can do that, let alone someone working at Apple.

    Bingo! They can write one line of code to make sure whatever exploit in place here would only work on one phone!

    LOL It is hillarius of how Americans always think it is their guns that gives them freedom.

    “If the government can compel a company to product a security breaking piece of software for a device, they can do it to every company”