What I don't understand is how the FBI will get what they want anyway.
Allow me to assume the DoJ supports the FBI and coerces Apple to be required to do what they're asking for: how is Apple, an organization, seriously going to be compelled to actually comply, exactly?
The developers don't have to work on the project and can technically request to work on something else, or quit out of spite.
How do you force someone that works for a company, of which is compelled to do complete an action as a legal obligation, such that an individual isn't the one that would receive the jail time for failing to perofrm the request. Sure, I suppose they could make Apple pay a fine, but outside of trying to ruin them financially, I really don't see how they can hold any of the employees under any legal threat of jail-time or punitive damages for being in contempt.
Allow me to assume the DoJ supports the FBI and coerces Apple to be required to do what they're asking for: how is Apple, an organization, seriously going to be compelled to actually comply, exactly?
The developers don't have to work on the project and can technically request to work on something else, or quit out of spite.
How do you force someone that works for a company, of which is compelled to do complete an action as a legal obligation, such that an individual isn't the one that would receive the jail time for failing to perofrm the request. Sure, I suppose they could make Apple pay a fine, but outside of trying to ruin them financially, I really don't see how they can hold any of the employees under any legal threat of jail-time or punitive damages for being in contempt.