> prevented Apple from providing the data derived from a Cloud copy
The cloud backup is encrypted. A pwd change does not change that fact.
Reading the filing: with the data on the cloud, the data is not self destructed (as it is on the phone) if too many attempts at guessing the password are made. Also attempts can be made extremely quickly.
Don’t need a password since you get infinite attempts at high speed.
That is why the govt, in the filing, is demanding that Apple create a back channel around the self destruct and attempt delay on the phone. i.e. infiite attempts at high speed
The govt evidence tampering (that prevented getting the data onto the Cloud) was discovered when Apple was in the process of providing the data voluntarily from the Cloud.
It’s not too difficult to read the filing despite the legalese.
p= Actually it does. It destroyed the possibility of decrypting the data stored on the iCloud. . . without the original passcode, it is impossible to decrypt the data o either the iPhone or on the iCloud in any reasonable length of time for that data to do any living human being any good. By being so damn ignorant about what they were doing, and not calling Apple in at the get-go to talk to the experts about what to do and just going to some average IT grunt at a County IT department, and trying an amateurish idea, they probably destroyed any possibility of accessing those data.