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I took it to imply exactly that, but then I realised that I'm missing some important information about the US court system. Had the FBI 'issued its application

I took it to imply exactly that, but then I realised that I'm missing some important information about the US court system. Had the FBI 'issued its application under seal' would Apple have been able to appeal under the same reporting restrictions thus initiating the same chain of legal process but without the messy publicly? Either way it looks horribly like the feds just took away the neutral ground in crypto war 2.0

comex 11y ago
Yes, a document or entire case being under seal doesn't affect the legal process itself, only what the public gets to see.
clort 11y ago
Except that this still relates to an older version of the technology.. in the Dune series, Leto bred the Duncan Idaho ghola over many generations because although some persons were invisible from prescience, he could still see their footprints.. but the footprints of the ghola faded from sight. Apple has been working towards making it impossible to extract the keys, and I'm sure that in crypto war 3.1 they will work further towards this, since it appears that the Secure Enclave may still have some weaknesses (that a firmware update doesn't wipe the keys) Whether the regulatory mechanism allows them to create something proof against the regulators, now thats going to be an interesting battle. They are still a US company after all.