The FBI made it public with the warrant.
Normally a warrant is to provide the court with something a person actually has.
THIS warrant is special, it required Apple to produce something that didn't exist, to go through great expense to devise and create something that would damage itself.
The kindest technical term for this is indentured servitude, but indentured servants customarily get a stipend while working off their indenture.
This is more like slavery, being forced at the sting of a government lash to design and build a slave ship for the FBI.
Unlike IBM to Hitler's Germany, Apple said no. Would history be better if IBM declined to build the means of tracking every Jew, Gypsy, communist, mental defective, and homosexual in Germany?
What do you think?
If they could actually could really get into the phone, why let anyone know they really could or couldn’t get into the phone? I mean, they didn’t know there was this private company that supposedly just did it for them back then? How does it make sense from a law enforcement or anti-terror intelligence standpoint?
From what I understand of it, I like that Apple stood up to them. I’m just not sure any of it makes sense.
Freegrds
I was not aware of this. I have some reading to do.