This is inaccurate. It is technically feasible for Apple to do this in a way that cannot run on any phone but the one in question. This is a fight about legal precedent, not the safety of this particular tool.

This isn’t correct. Apple already holds the keys used to sign iOS. Those keys would be be necessary to re-sign this tool should the uid that limits it to this single device change (in other words, for it to work on any other iPhone in the world, it would need to be resigned). Those keys already exist and already are…

I think the use of the words ‘tampered’ and ‘bungled’ are confusing things here. 4 days after a mass shooting/terrorist act the fbi asked or instructed the legal owners of the phone to reset the iCloud password to quickly and legally gain access to the main suspects iCloud account. I don’t think these facts are in…

Its certainly not bullshit, but I’ll grant you some would say it’s smug.

Contempt of court for refusing to comply with a court order. Y’all have got to get over this idea that Apple can just bow up on a federal judge. They can, and presumably will, appeal. But please do not walk away from this with the impression that your principles will somehow protect you from being thrown the hell in…

Not exactly, no. But if you have the option enabled entering the wrong password 10 times will erase your user data (or more accurately I think, the key that decrypts it, but the affect is the same)

I honestly have no idea what you mean. It still says onlynewlawscount when I look at it. What did it change to? Or what was it before maybe?

But you’re not making anyone aware of what is actually going on. You’re clouding the issue by spouting nonsense.

Yeah, you don’t have any idea what All Writs is either. Don’t let that stop you though!

Good news. All Writs has been contested, defined, and interpreted quite a bit on the last 200 years. They didn’t dig it out of a time capsule just for this.

One and the same. Which is why I question the wisdom of this particular fight which doesn’t impact encryption but is certainly going to be used as ammo for arguing against it.

This is almost precisely what the court suggested.

Yes, the court order instructs Apple be compensated for work

If you say so. I, for one, am going to miss the bill of rights. And the constitution.

Man are you going to be disappointed when you find out when the Bill of Rights was written.