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Originally Posted by Gargamel
As it turns out, apple did offer a simple and one off solution to the problem, but the government screwed it up (by my reading).
IF the phone had been allowed to backup to the icloud, apple would have happily turned over the data from the backup. But someone in the government (I'm not sure if it was the suspects employers or someone from the Justice Department) altered the phones login properties, preventing it from backing up.
So, yes Apple did have a simple solution that would have complied with the court order, but the government screwed it up.
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It was the terrorist's employer, the County of San Bernardino, who fouled up; there was an add-on to the telecom package allowing the County to access employees' cell phones and contents, if needed, but, while the County did purchase the add-on (by some local news accounts, about six months prior to the attack),it never activated the program. The Feds had and have nothing to do with the loss of access...
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