This is to establish a precedence. Apple should hold out until a warrant is handed to them.
They [the FBI] I believe has all the information from the phone. So you’re right, it’s about ego. But it’s about the DOJ ego.
“This is to establish a precedence. Apple should hold out until a warrant is handed to them.”
That is exactly what this is about. I would be willing to bet there is very little info on that phone they don’t already have or are aware of. They can get call records and location records, etc from plenty other sources and Im sure they already had it long ago. They likely even had the phones iCloud backups from weeks ago from Apple (which they can and do provide when requested/ordered). Up until recently that is until (as admitted today) they royally screwed up did an iCloud password reset.
This is about the FBI wanting to make Apple (and anyone else with encryption they can’t break) their bitch.
The biggest problem here is the incompetence of the Dept of Health that was handing out iPhones to employees with clearly NO security policy in place at all. “Oh hey welcome to your new job! Here is your iPhone, feel free to set your password to anything you want so we can never access your data ever...its cool we trust you!”. Someone at that place needs to be fired...