Iphone owners can....or should......feel proud that the Apple CEO is taking on the FBI

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. I do appreciate your finding that....seriously.

It adds several important factors to the issue, and begs a few questions:


Apple HAS provided info. since 2012, the article seems to say, under the court orders re: the Prism Act.

In this case, the court orders are using an antiquated All Writs Act, which seems to be an objection of Apple.

but, it turns out,

Homeland Security Department “is in possession of technology that would allow its forensic technicians to override the pass codes security feature on the subject iPhone and obtain the data contained therein.”

That revelation, which went unreported in the press at the time, seemed to undercut the government’s central argument that it needed Apple to unlock a protected iPhone.

Wonder if this is an issue because FBI & HSD do not play well together, historically?

In this one case, says the article....“The question is does the law give the government the ability to force Apple to create new code?”