To my ears, this quote read exactly like that old chestnut of, “there’s this bomb ticking away, right, and the guy who built it is right there, and he won’t tell you the code to stop it, so basically you have to break his knees…”:
“They need to figure that out now before there is that bigger body count. So this is as good a test case as any to have that fight,” said Ron Hosko, who until 2014 led the F.B.I.’s criminal division. “Crack that thing for me now, Tim Cook, because it’s only going to get worse.”