but it is infinitely disheartening to imagine Warner Bros. deciding a coherent script isn’t necessary to make the film

Nah - he just fills in the bits he wasn’t there for with events he experienced roughly 34 years earlier.

Calling this a new phone is like a putting a wig on a body pillow and naming it Samantha.

Lead in the water supply? Finally a plausible explanation for why we have a country that looks like it might elect Donald Trump president.

“who traditionally try just about everything new”

“That’s why techies go for Android”

This isn’t like a slow-moving civil trial. This is a criminal case. It’ll move very fast.

Iirc, the UI is the same for 4-8 numerical digits

This isn’t like a slow-moving civil trial. This is a criminal case. It’ll move very fast.

Guess what? You aren’t the Department of Justice or the FBI investigating an act of terrorism. You asking for a court order to access an iPhone doesn’t mean squat to anyone.

Nice how you deliberately skip over the whole “active murder investigation”part.

As the owner, Apple *should* provide you with a method to unlock your phone.

Even worse — Apple has complied with requests like this at least 70 times before;

Do you have any idea how R&D for encryption software works?

They’re already in defiance of one court order

it’s written to only work on this phone

OWNER OF THE PHONE (the county, it was a work issued phone) WANTS THE FBI TO UNLOCK IT

Look at what Germany was able to do between two world wars.

Stop thinking the entire English speaking world uses American spelling, please.

In Mass Effect 3, Conrad Verner has a great rant about the ammo system.