Alternate take and apparently unpopular opinion: the US government can simply force Apple to give them a back door to access iCloud photos directly.
What Apple has done here is both way more complicated and way more visible than necessary, while being less useful to a government. The slippery slope and capability to exploit is cloud storage.
What Apple has done here is both way more complicated and way more visible than necessary, while being less useful to a government. The slippery slope and capability to exploit is cloud storage.