Is it just me or does it seem it was never about cracking the iphone? In fact I wonder now if the FBI ever did crack the phone? It seemed they wanted to set a precedent until Apple full out refused and lawyerd up. Realizing they would very likely loose the precedent setting case they "cracked" the phone in time not to need to go to court. All of that just seems a little convenient. We will probably never know.
Edit: For those that don't recall the iPhone that was being cracked was his "work" phone as his other phone was destroyed on purpose. When you are going to be caught and you destroy only your personal phone its not a long stretch to assume no terrorist activity was on the "work" phone. This is why I went down the rabbit whole in the first place as it never really seemed like there would be anything of importance on the phone anyhow.
Right. That's been the crux of Lucian's articles on the subject. All about precedent, then backing away when it looked like they would lose so as not to set a precedent that worked AGAINST them.
Is it just me or does it seem it was never about cracking the iphone? In fact I wonder now if the FBI ever did crack the phone? It seemed they wanted to set a precedent until Apple full out refused and lawyerd up. Realizing they would very likely loose the precedent setting case they "cracked" the phone in time not to need to go to court. All of that just seems a little convenient. We will probably never know.
Edit: For those that don't recall the iPhone that was being cracked was his "work" phone as his other phone was destroyed on purpose. When you are going to be caught and you destroy only your personal phone its not a long stretch to assume no terrorist activity was on the "work" phone. This is why I went down the rabbit whole in the first place as it never really seemed like there would be anything of importance on the phone anyhow.
Right. That's been the crux of Lucian's articles on the subject. All about precedent, then backing away when it looked like they would lose so as not to set a precedent that worked AGAINST them.
One does wonder how they have to be in a court lest they just take the exploit and use it forever on the sly.
When other criminals admit publicly on nationwide TV the crime they have committed, they get taken to by the task force, then to court, then to prison - but it seems that somehow the gov not only has every loophole covered, but they also have a "you can't touch this" clause for everything else as well.
No one is watching the watchers, the watchers are exempt.
That's how we got the housing bubble and worldwide burst, and then the media told us no one could have known... yet the crimes were blatant and obvious to even casual observers.
It's amazing and this has not been going on in the USA forever - a lot of these crimes are new record breaking breaches the likes of which have never been experienced here, and it's getting steadily worse.
We are turning into the dirt we formerly were above.