Apple lied and is now feigning surprise and ignorance.
Perhaps.
I am of the opinion that the FBI lied.
They had total access all along to every single morsel of data through illegal means.
They needed Apple to provide a plausible cover story for a legal way they acquired that data.
Apple refused to play along.
Now there is said to be this unknown hacker or hackers who allegedly managed to crack this hyper-secure algorithm in a matter of weeks and the data can be freely used by the FBI...
Did Apple lie or did the government lie? With no other information, the default is the one with the proven and consistent track record of lying to the American public is the one much more likely to lie in this case.
More likely: NSA had the original iCloud setup session on file and recovered the original password, reset it, synced the phone with the home network, and reset it from the iCloud. Which is what would have happened if the stupid IT guy hadn’t reset the iCloud password in the first place.
Apple isn't the liar. You are.
The iphone being hacked just talked me out of buying an iPhone. Bad day for apple. Guess I’ll wait for for the Note 6.