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Don't brow beat me too much for this but I don't understand why the Government doesn't get one of their defense contractors to hire away an Apple engineer or three who helped write this code and just do it themselves. I know the timeline wouldn't be as short but then they wouldn't need to go to Apple.

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My understanding is that they could easily create their modified iOS, but they can't install it on an iPhone without getting it signed by Apple's signing key.

Right, and the group with access is presumably much smaller.

They want to set some precedent in court so they can use the same process for every future version of the iPhone.

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