Limbaugh stated something startling today. The owner of the phone is not the terrorist but the local county government for whom the terrorist worked. Limbaugh stated that the county has the legal authority to authorize Apple to hack the phone. There is one even better. The county has access to software provided by Apple that would allow the county to get into the phone and give all the data to the FBI.
The big question is why the county does not use the software and get into the phone?
Limbaugh is 100% clueless. The county DOES NOT have software that can allow them to get onto that phone. The software doesn’t exist. That is exactly what Apple is being asked to create by the FBI.
Apple was in the process of getting the data for the govt when it was discovered that the govt tampered with the evidence i.e. the phone. Apple was going to copy the phone data to the Cloud where it is far easier to get at. By tampering the govt changed the phones state to one where it could no longer be copied to the Cloud. Simple incompetence or did they like this case for its PR aspects?
Without the tampering, there would not be a very emotional case to tie to since they would have been able to more easily attack the encryption on the Cloud.