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I suspect they didn't actually crack it. I think it's likely that they just realized the losing battle they were fighting. It sounded like a lot of public senti
by personjerry 11y ago
I suspect they didn't actually crack it. I think it's likely that they just realized the losing battle they were fighting. It sounded like a lot of public sentiment was against the FBI and they were unlikely to win the case (and it seemed like the information wasn't vital to them anyway) so they just gave an excuse to drop the case.
This has an additional benefit: rather than having the "boundaries" here be defined by a ruling, now in theory they have more time to work in a "gray area".
- Alex3917 11y agoThey may also be saving their political capital to indict Hillary.
- omonra 11y agoI'm not sure about public sentiment - have you seen polls about it? My take is that HN crowd is completely unrepresentative vis-a-vis the opinion of majority on this issue.
- personjerry 11y agoYou may be right; I have not. I had read that most of the big companies like Facebook and Microsoft, at least, were against the FBI on this issue so that is more of what I meant by "public" sentiment, although now thinking about it, that means I've made a much less compelling argument.