[Swordmaker]

This is getting confusing. I thought the problem was that Apple itself is currently not able to harvest the data from this i-phone, and that the court ordered them to build a device that would be able to harvest it.

Do I have that correct?

The court essentially ordered Apple to break into the iPhone 5C, iOS 9, so that the automatic erasure system would not destroy the data on the device on the tenth attempt at putting in a wrong passcode. Apple says there IS no way around that because it is hard coded into the processor. The court says DO IT, regardless of it being impossible. Apple says any hack would compromise all iPhones everywhere, so NO.

[Axenolith]

Does that 10th erasing attempt also remove the data from the cloud?