” ...That is almost exactly the opposite of what I claimed.”
Total nonsense! You wrote that the FBI illegally got the data from the phone. What law(s) did they break?
No, no, no, no, HELL NO!
I wrote they obtained the data via the NSA’s or perhaps their own illegal monitoring of the CONTENT of the transmitted data within the USofA, they can only legally collect metadata in the US, that is to say, when the calls were made from which number to which number and how long the calls lasted, when a text was sent out and to whom, when a web site was visited, but not the contents of files up or downloaded.
The NSA cannot do this in America any more that the CIA can spy on Americans in America.
The FBI needed Apple to unlock to phone to have a plausible LEGAL explanation as to where they got the data they already had obtained by illicit means.
Is this really a hard concept?
If they just took illegally acquired data into court, the court would have no choice but to discard ‘the fruit of a poisonous tree’.
With a story that they got the data off the phone Apple cracked they could get away with it.
Otherwise, how would they explain away the provenience of all that damning data?
Was that a little more clear or would another reading of what I actually said in light of this clarify matters?