I’m no computer tech/software developer, but can’t they write another encryption program and update every iPhone but that one?
If they’ve already done this before, there’s no good reason for them to not get the FBI into the murderers’ phones now.
No. This is about the millions of this model of iPhone already in the wild. It would put every single one of them at risk. This is NOT about the encryption, it's about the timing out of passcodes that prevent crooks from breaking into iPhones to use brute force dictionary attacks. It is the BASIC security level the judge wants them to get around, not the encryption. That's the strange thing. The encryption will STILL be there. . . and that would take years to decipher.
I was thinking the same thing. They do the updates for the phone so how do they get past the encryption?