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.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Or, this is a psych ops against the muzzies, and/or it has all been a red herring for something else that is going on.
I agree. Maybe the government found the password to the phone that the FBI had instructed the county to change and/or figured they’d lose in court so they made up the story that they got into it so they wouldn’t look any more ridiculous than they already do. And just to stick it to Apple, leave them to figure it out.