I don't see how any "compromise" can be anything but lose-lose.
Say you get Apple to agree to allow law-enforcement to have another data decryption key loaded onto every device that is protected by a device specific key that Apple will provide to law enforcement on request. In theory this sounds ok.
Until you realise that anyone intent on any ACTUAL wrong doing is going to also use their own software encryption to protect anything worth protecting.
All you have done now is reduced the protection of the average law abiding citizen by creating a possible attack vector (no matter how tanky Apple HQ security may be) and not at all enabled law enforcement to attack actual high value targets.
You could argue that high value targets are not the actual targets here.. but then why bother? Do you really need access to someones phone to prove they stole a car? Or shot up a bunch of people? No, good old fashioned police work is good enough for that. The only time I see the need for easy access to someones phone is criminal conspiracy and in that case it's highly unlikely they are going to be just relying on the devices full disk encryption.
The entire argument from law enforcement on this issue is a complete joke so far, they need to get with the times and retool for the threats of today.
Say you get Apple to agree to allow law-enforcement to have another data decryption key loaded onto every device that is protected by a device specific key that Apple will provide to law enforcement on request. In theory this sounds ok.
Until you realise that anyone intent on any ACTUAL wrong doing is going to also use their own software encryption to protect anything worth protecting.
All you have done now is reduced the protection of the average law abiding citizen by creating a possible attack vector (no matter how tanky Apple HQ security may be) and not at all enabled law enforcement to attack actual high value targets.
You could argue that high value targets are not the actual targets here.. but then why bother? Do you really need access to someones phone to prove they stole a car? Or shot up a bunch of people? No, good old fashioned police work is good enough for that. The only time I see the need for easy access to someones phone is criminal conspiracy and in that case it's highly unlikely they are going to be just relying on the devices full disk encryption.
The entire argument from law enforcement on this issue is a complete joke so far, they need to get with the times and retool for the threats of today.