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So if the FBI is just going to have the Israeli company Cellebrite unlock the phone, why couldn't Conway prosecutor's office do this directly? And given the num

So if the FBI is just going to have the Israeli company Cellebrite unlock the phone, why couldn't Conway prosecutor's office do this directly? And given the number of public articles of opinion offered to the FBI on how trivial it was to unlock 5c and previous iPhones, and the number of companies offering unlocking them as a service, is the FBI just incredibly slow at setting a standard forensic process, or is there some other reason these phones aren't being unlocked?

cboppert 11y ago
Are there legal precedents which allow courts to employ international help for state cases? Is that legal? Are there issues? Maybe it's a financial thing? What's the cost of using one of these outside companies like Cellebrite? I read that there was a chip replication process in play which meant even if the security mechanisms wiped the chip after X attempts you'd just have more chips ready with the same exact image to try, thus negating the issue. That sounds expensive. But I'm not sure. Can a state prosecutor afford that? And in the end, I might be totally wrong on a ton of this.