“This was all to protect the phone data of ONE of the Fraud’s terrorist buddies. Betting they anticipated the huge pushback to EVERYONE, which makes everyone forget about the ONE PHONE in question, to still protect the Fraud’s BFF terrorists.”
Nope. Apple can’t recover messages on the iPhone any better than LE can. The FBI is asking for a future back door...none exists now.
Horseclinton.
Every once in a while, we read about lots of “important” people getting their phones hacked and their personal photos are plastered all over.
It can obviously be done, with or without Apple’s assistance.
This is all a smokescreen to protect Hussein’s terrorist BFFs.
Who is the carrier for the phone? Sprint, AT&T? Why wouldn’t they have the records?
Actually, reading the customer letter on Apple, it appears that the method is: create a version of the OS that defeats the prevention of a brute force passcode hack and upgrade a locked phone to this new OS. I had previously understood that this couldn't happen, as a locked phone couldn't be upgraded, but it seems like that has been worked around.
So, yes, the messages could be recovered IF a version of the OS was created that would disable prevention of a brute force hack AND you had physical possession of the phone AND you ''upgraded'' the phone to this weakened OS.
Seems like the company realized that once this genie was out of the bottle their only choice was to create public pressure to not be compelled into slavery without being duly convicted.
Which might work for the US, but such constitutional protections don't exist for the company in the rest of the world.
At the end of the day, Apple just admitted that any current or previous generation iPhone can be hacked and publicly is asking not to be forced to do it.