"Thanks for that excellent example of 'False dichotomy'."
Face it: police has a mandate to stop crime, and it needs to find evidences. With a valid warrant, they can open doors, safes, etc. etc. They can tap phones, install cams and microphones. It's a matter of fact - even democratic constitutions have provisions to allow for evidence gatherings as long as they abide to the law. Even privacy is not an unlimited right - or say bye bye to any kind of justice.
Smartphones are no different. If there is a technical way to "open" something legally in search of evidences, they will do - and yes, someone will do a business of it - they always did. This business could be less or more ethical - and may need to be regulated, and yes, there's a risk they could end in the wrong hands.
It's like weapon, it can be a gun in the hands of a police officer saving you, or an AR-15 in the hands of a murderer shooting at you, if there is no sensible regulations and controls.
Still it's better that there are expensive, difficult and limited ways to achieve it - because otherwise there will be a mounting pressure for backdoors, and it could be successful.
It's not hard to understand, but of course the anarchist conspirationists that permeates the Internet see any kind of law enforcement as some kind of evil - until their are the victims.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
