When we stop playing along, isn't that the cue to start fighting? Well I don't want to fight. I'm going to keep playing along and hope things change for the better until I am convinced that they cannot possibly change for the better.
I currently think the legal system more or less still respects the rule of law in criminal cases. That may change with the advent of ever more thought crimes, but we are not quite there yet.
If the prosecutor spends a day in prison for his abuse of power I'll eat my hat. Hell I'll do it if they just strip him of his pension. It's simply not going to happen, because there is no longer any accountability left in our government.
I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are not. I said those prosecutors in Texas should go to jail for filing those fake cases against Tom Delay and Rick Perry. We'll see what happens.
I was thinking that that part of the bootloader would be in rom that wouldn't be able to be overridden through a software update. Of course, that would have to be code that had been debugged with in an extraordinary amount of thoroughness since it would essentially be unchangable post-manufacture. Since Apple has total control over the hardware they manufacture, I'm pretty confident they'll find a way. I certainly hope they do in any case.
From what I have read, they've already done it in their later phones and operating systems. Just not this one in question.
It makes it all the more strange that Apple would pick this fight. They are basically fighting over a relatively obsolete piece of hardware and software. If their later stuff is truly unbreakable, how much of their subsequent equipment will this effect? It would seem none, yet Apple is throwing a conniption fit for some reason.
It was the FBI that picked the fight. Apple originally requested that such technical assistance requests be made discreetly; the FBI insisted on taking it loudly public, forcing Apple to respond in kind.