Should probably be among the highest ranking factors from the set of heuristics they use to identify questionable people.

That's pretty much my life. Can I get a free t-shirt out of it? You know, for my troubles.

The FBI got super lucky especially because the 5s and up has more advanced and complete encryption (both in hardware and iOS) and the San Bernadino terrorist had a 5c device. On top of that, they had physical access to the device. They wouldn't be so lucky if they wanted to dig up conversation data WITHOUT the cooperation of the company administering the servers, using Whatsapp as an example. Obviously snooping encrypted conversations "in motion" as they put it is not possible. What they really need is for these companies to cooperate and provide data when needed. Companies will fight back of course, but there really has to be some happy medium where companies can feel safe providing necessary information to law enforcement and yet know that they aren't undermining the security and privacy of their users. That's really what this boils down to. But that will be a super tough thing to iron out in law, since it comes from a position of compromise - no one will be happy.

Also I think they should keep this private because you don't want that information known potentially by criminals who might potentially use that to steal personal information from things like stolen phones.

The iPhone 5s is more modern with the first 64 bit system-on-a-chip design. The 5c is an older design so whatever forensic analysis they could do to exploit a vulnerability in the 5c hardware is almost surely gone from the 5s onward being an entirely new design. Hopefully Apple will continue to be more careful with the security in their hardware designs, but I still think they should allow law enforcement a means of decrypting the contents of a phone for special situations like people involved in notorious crimes. Those types deserve no privacy. There needs to be special laws that can balance people's privacy with the need for law enforcement to investigate known criminals, especially ones that everyone knows is a bad guy, like a terrorist. Anyone who disagrees is basically saying "terrorists deserve the same protections as everyone else" and they'd be out of their mind for thinking that.

They are giving the terrorists an advantage and this is very bad.

Snowden is nothing but a troublemaker and is making it very hard for America to fight the bad guys.

If they aren't authorized to talk about it publicly then they need to be quiet, wtf.

Very interesting. If it catches on well enough and there are a high amount of purchases it might help pave the way for more mass production and other companies licensing the design and producing units thus making it a little more affordable and/or palatable for the rest of us. I know one thing though, I'd have to invent a new curse word to describe the anger I'd have if I spilled my beverage of choice on it.