I have to say, the balls on that designer who made the Legend poster hahahahaha

“I find it interesting that this article does NOT touch on the fact that this is not a personal phone, but a government owned one, and the government agency has given permission for them to open it.”

They aren’t calling a locksmith. The closer analogy is that they’re calling the makers of the safe and telling them to start building the safes in a way that the government can access any of the manufacturer’s safes at any time in the future without having to call a locksmith.

Too bad it’s not a 5s; if it were couldn’t they just mash his lifeless fingers on the home button to unlock the phone?

The problem is that there is no way for it to be targeted to work on ONLY this one specific phone. Once the software is created it could be used in the same fashion on any other phone of the same type.

After which, you have our solemn word, we promise to discard this custom OS and would never, ever dream of using it again. Or, wait, we’ll send a copy to every FBI office and major police jurisdiction, and tell them to only use it when it’s really important (their call) and keep secure when they’re not using it (a…