A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
I am just a thorn in everybody's side.
I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.