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The FBI is asking that it be built now and then loaded onto the already recovered phone. > Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone o
by aleem 11y ago
The FBI is asking that it be built now and then loaded onto the already recovered phone.
> Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation.
- fredsir 11y agoWhy the downvote? That is what I said. I merely used a slew of different words. > The FBI is asking that it be built now Because it's not possible _now_. > and then loaded onto the already recovered phone. Thus it becoming possible after they have built the new version of iOS, and since they cannot go back in time and build it, it would indeed be _in_the_future_ that it became available, if Apple complied, that is.
- aleem 11y agoI didn't downvote but Cook's letter suggests that the backdoor needs to apply retrospectively to existing phones (not just future phones). Hence the parent post's suggestion that the argument is moot -- if Apple has the capability to retrospectively backdoor existing phones it would imply that Apple didn't secure it in a foolproof way in the first place.