Thanks. I’m so confused. Didn’t Apple say that they could have gotten the data off the cloud if the password had not been changed?
So since the pw was changed, no one can access the cloud to get the data.
I am getting one of my rare headaches like when we discuss natural born citizens.
Besides the headaches, this is why I love FR when we are killing each other over Trump or Cruz.
Apple said that, if the iCloud password had not been changed, the phone might have backed itself up to the iCloud account upon being brought within range of a familiar WiFi network, such as Farook's house or office.
Apple has already turned over the contents of the iCloud account. But the problem is, the phone stopped backing up to iCloud on October 19, weeks before the terrorist attack. Why was that? Probably because Farook changed some setting on the phone. If that's true, then Apple's statement is wrong: you would need to log into the phone and undo Farook's configuration change to get the phone to back up. But, of course, logging into the phone has been the issue all along.
Maybe if Apple could change the iCloud password back to what it was before the SB County guy reset it, we could see if Apple is right that it would back up. But I doubt it.
So since the pw was changed, no one can access the cloud to get the data.
Accessing the cloud data was the reason the SB County guy reset the cloud password. Problem was, the data stopped on 19 October.