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As has been said many times over, this is setting a precedent where the FBI can ask Apple to do this again, with the software already created. The "only functio

As has been said many times over, this is setting a precedent where the FBI can ask Apple to do this again, with the software already created. The "only function with that phone" is a negligible hinderance to using this on another phone.

XorNot 11y ago
And it would only work for that specific model of phone. And to do so the FBI would have to have a public warrant for the search, granted by public courts. What exactly is the problem with that power? It's the same as one which lets them search your home.
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- tobylane 11y ago
  Apple goes to the effort of designing the software to be secure to the point of inaccessible, even when Apple is asked to work against the user, so it's a selling point. If the FBI is known to be able to get into a secure phone it commercially affects Apple. Why would it only work for that model of phone? Why would iOS vary its repeated attempt lock out code between models? Also another issue is that Apple are questioning whether this warrant was ever legal to exist.
  - bonzini 11y ago
    In more recent phones Secure Enclave would enforce the timeout, so no change in iOS could remove the timeout.
    - tobylane 11y ago
      It appears that the firmwire of the Secure Enclave can be updated with the Apple private key. It isn't iOS, but for the purposes of this, it might as well be.