"The high profile court battle ultimately ended after the FBI paid a third party company to gain access to the device via an exploit in the security system."
It cost a lot of money, basically (AFAIK on the order of a million dollars to Celebrite).
One funny outcome of the San Bernardino iPhone cracking debate was the Government double speak:
To Apple ...
> We only want to force you to build a custom iOS so we can get into this iPhone.
To DA's across the country ...
> Send us all your iPhones for ... reasons.
But comedy aside, they really do care about the cost / time of un-encrypting things. They're position seems to be that anything outside of your brain (5th amendment and all) should be available with a court order in a reasonable time and at reasonable cost.
I don't agree with that, because manufacturers should be able to produce whatever software they damn well please. But, they have a logical position if you look from the right angle.
> They're position seems to be that anything outside of your brain (5th amendment and all) should be available with a court order in a reasonable time and at reasonable cost.
I'm looking forward to the first court cases that deal with somebody who implanted a memory chip into their body and are storing information in it (only accessible through a wirelessly sent password) that the court wants to access. Could the court order surgery to remove it.
One funny outcome of the San Bernardino iPhone cracking debate was the Government double speak:
To Apple ...
> We only want to force you to build a custom iOS so we can get into this iPhone.
To DA's across the country ...
> Send us all your iPhones for ... reasons.
But comedy aside, they really do care about the cost / time of un-encrypting things. They're position seems to be that anything outside of your brain (5th amendment and all) should be available with a court order in a reasonable time and at reasonable cost.
I don't agree with that, because manufacturers should be able to produce whatever software they damn well please. But, they have a logical position if you look from the right angle.