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by Noble6 587 days ago
Are you talking about the California shooting in 2015, where the FBI asked Apple to decrypt the phone? The way I recall it being resolved was some contractor decrypted it after Apple refused to
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it was Mark Dowd's firm, Azimuth Security - not just some contractor, he literally wrote the book on memory safety vulnerabilities
And before that, Snowden leaks suggested that Apple worked with NSA.
> some contractor decrypted it after Apple refused to

Or that was the story they all agreed to tell.