六级If Apple alters the security model of future iPhones so that even its own engineers' "reasonable assistance" will not be able to crack a given device when compelled by the government, a precedent set in this case might lose its lasting force.

如果苹果改变了未来iphone的安全模式，以至于在政府的强制下，即使是自己的工程师的“合理协助”也无法破解给定的设备，那么这一案例中的先例可能会失去持久的效力。

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六级As Apple and several security experts have argued, an order compelling Apple to write software that gives the Fbi access to the iPhone in question would establish an unsettling precedent.

正如苹果公司和几位安全专家所指出的那样，一项命令迫使苹果公司编写软件，让联邦调查局能够访问相关的iPhone，将开创一个令人不安的先例。

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六级The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

该命令实质上要求苹果黑客攻击自己的设备，一旦该命令生效，这一先例可以用来证明执法部门在远离国家安全威胁的其他调查中绕过加密技术的努力是正当的。

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六级Despite the modesty of the benefit, the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fought it bitterly, describing it as "government-run personnel management" and a "dangerous precedent".

尽管好处不大，但商会和其他商业团体对此进行了激烈的斗争，称之为“政府运作的人事管理”和“危险的先例”。

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六级As Apple and several security experts have argued, an order compelling Apple to write software that gives the access to the iPhone in question would establish an unsettling precedent.

正如苹果公司和几位安全专家所认为的那样，一项命令迫使苹果公司编写能够访问有问题的iPhone的软件

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