The article indicates they _were_ hacking a clone (mirror) of the data... which is curious, since Apple does claim there is a hardware key to prevent exactly th

The article indicates they _were_ hacking a clone (mirror) of the data... which is curious, since Apple does claim there is a hardware key to prevent exactly that. Presumably someone is doing a little lying-by-omission - Probably there is a way to clone the device key with sufficient access/tooling, but that is pure conjecture.