[ThunderSleeps]

Wait, they want to try what? - ANDROID PING!
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I'm reminded of that scene at the end of Indian Jones and the Ark of the Covenant. "...We have top people working on it, top people..."

Seriously, I've got $5 that says what happens next is one of three things:

1. Their attempt to access the clear text information on the phone ends up rendering it scrambled to the point that Apple later says (truthfully or not) that it is now unrecoverable.
2. Their attempt to access the clear text information actually physically damages/destroys the circuits and hardware, rendering the information completely inaccessible.
3. They actually decrypt it, basically admitting that they've had this ability all along, they just wanted to yank Apple's chain for whatever reason.

[Tucker39]

I think your 3rd option is close. My only difference is that, as I said a month ago; I think this is all an FBI ruse. They had that phone hacked and exploited within a few hours of finding it. The haggling that’s been going on has had 2 purposes. 1. To get Apple to cave, if possible, and have EASY access to all iphones.

And 2. To sandbag the muzzies into a false sense of security, that they can put anything they want on their iphones, and it’s safe and secure from American Law and Security Enforcement eyes.

[Grampa Dave]

4. NSA has had the data and due to laws or distrust of the FBI hasn’t shared the data. In the meantime, wet teams from the CIA/MI6, Russia and the French have been wiping out the foreign buddies of the San Bernardino killers. Those mop up jobs are about done, so now the data can be released.

News of this possible release will cause the about to be exposed jihadists in America to panic and try to leave.