The govt had the data just sitting on the phone just waiting to be copied onto the Cloud where it could be more easily processed. Apple voluntarily wanted to copy the data to the Cloud but was sabotaged by the govt tampering with the evidence (phone) and bricking the ability to copy to the Cloud.
Why isn’t the govt employee who tampered with the evidence being publicly fired and prosecuted. Malice or incompetence on the employees part?
This case need not have escalated if good evidence handling had been done but maybe they needed an emotional case to tie the privacy intrusion to.
The Byzantine logical arguments from both sides are quite entertaing - please continue.
“This case need not have escalated if good evidence handling had been done but maybe they needed an emotional case to tie the privacy intrusion to.”
I don’t know, I think there was some lame excuse about trying to get more information fast because there were all these people murdered or something. Some people get pretty wound up and take all this jihad business seriously, so they go as fast as they can, not thinking they were gonna run into some tech taboo and get voted off the island.
My understanding is that they tried what they could right away because this wasn’t mental masturbation for them, they were hoping to catch more murderers. Moving quickly is important in this kind of case is important to some more than others. They probably knew that any decent company would just say OK and get the info out for them, so they tried to do what they could with the clock ticking.
As for Apple, they weren’t even asked to do anything that had to do with their code, nothing but help get the information out. Tim the drama queen pushed it over the edge at that point. He probably could have pulled one out of his ass that day. If it wasn’t already occupied.
It is pretty hilarious that they turned it into this whole thing...fate of the world balanced on a razor’s edge if we get the info for you. The trials won’t be anywhere near as entertaining if Tim continues the hissy fit all the way to the Supremes, not without Justice Scalia there. Would have been priceless. No telling where they will push this...