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China and Russia make iCloud data requests the same way the FBI already has in this case. Nothing different. The main thing is the FBI wants a free back door to

• lern_too_spel 11y ago
  No, they want to circumvent security on this phone with a court order, just the same as the 70 phones that Apple circumvented security on in the US previously.
  • daemin 11y ago
    From my understanding in the previous cases the passcode only limited access to using the phone, not to the data inside. This is the same situation as having a password protected PC but not having your disks encrypted. You need to know the password to be able to use the computer, but anyone that has physical access to your machine can just take the disks and read your data using another computer. From reading the article this is how Apple has helped law enforcement previously. Now in more up to date versions of iOS the passcode limits access to using the phone, in addition to limiting access to the data contained inside. This limits what Apple can do to help law enforcement in the previous scenario, since any data they could copy off the phone would still be encrypted.
    • lern_too_spel 11y ago
      That technical description does not change Apple's legal obligation, which is exactly the same in both cases.
  • bonzini 11y ago
    The other 70 phones stored unencrypted data. This phone stores encrypted data. The FBI wants a way to _brute-force_ the key (there's just 10000 of them), not a way to _circumvent_ it.