"Cyber law attorney Catherine Gellis described Apple's position in a different manner. "Apple is trying to deliver an invulnerable product," she told me. If Apple can break its own code, then its new iPhone is "no longer a secure device. It's no longer invulnerable." You could say the government is demanding that Apple disprove its marketing claim that its phones are so secure that even Apple cannot hack into your data."Exactly.
"Cook, Sanchez and Gellis fear that if the government succeeds in using the All Writs Act of 1789 to force Apple to undo its security measures, there's no way the Department of Justice stops with Farook's work phone. Indeed, Sanchez thinks that's the idea. He suspects this effort is less about Farook's phone and "more about finding a high-profile case to push a novel and somewhat unprecedented" use of an 18th century law."True.
""I just don't see them doing that to Apple," former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow told me. Harlow doesn't think Uncle Sam would haul such a large corporation into court unless there was no other recourse. For one thing, "These are all senior government lawyers who want to get jobs with Apple" when they leave the government."Lucky for Apple.
Local government had cheap software to unlock iPhone, but never used it.
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