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This claim seems dubious at best. There's no proof that they got access, and it's in their best interest to claim they did. On one hand, I'm not totally sure we should assume that they're not capable of gaining access to iPhones willy-nilly. On the other hand, I'm re-evaluating my security posture...

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Why would it be dubious? It's an older phone without a secure enclave - that's subject to the NAND mirroring trick.

Then again, why can't Apple sue Cellebrite under the DMCA for bypassing their security?

> This claim seems dubious at best. There's no proof that they got access, and it's in their best interest to claim they did.

Wouldn't that be perjury?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2778264-Apple-Status...

Sure, but what's a little perjury between government officials: http://www.salon.com/2013/06/12/how_james_clapper_will_get_a...

Lying to an indifferent, disagreeable, and dysfunctional legislature is one thing. Lying directly to a federal judge with contempt power is how one ends up in jail before packing up your suitcase and walking out the courtroom.

Not for something like this.

I wish it wasn't so easy for you to just pass off what James Clapper did as if it was something of little consequence.

It should have been something of consequence.

Apple has, as part of the case, admitted that data access was obtained by the FBI.

Unless they're in on it too, of course.

Well if they got access and there is any data that helps them bring prosecutions (eg against the neighbor who;s charged with helping the alleged terrorists) they'll have to say where that evidence originated.

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