[EdHominem]

On the work phone, sure. Yay.

You do know that they destroyed their personal phones, right? And that it's been months now, wasted bickering with Apple even if there would have been any leads.

> How could they possibly have known that without unlocking the phone?

Smart money says they already unlocked it with an exploit and knew there was nothing, then played legal games with Apple until they started losing, and to exit gracefully they accepted the offer of one of the many firms begging to extract data from the phone for them.

They have the NSA's phone number. They were playing helpless for a reason.