And Apple threw a temper-tantrum screaming fit and ended up with exactly what they claim to have been concerned about anyway.
Had they helped, they could have controlled the process, but now they have no control at all.
Apple has egg on it's face.
If the FBI bought a tool then that means a tool can be built by commercial entities and there may very well be other tools.
Apple screwed the pooch on this one. Now it is well known that Apple isn’t this uncrackable, or as swordmaker put it, “impossible” to crack device. Apple isn’t this “not even the power of the NSA can crack us”, but any ol’ programmer can do it.
No, it doesn't. Had Apple done what the FBI's original Court Order required, it would have been far worse. You don't have a clue about what you are talking about. Apple even said that the iPhone 5C was openable, but the Court Order was a general order to create far beyond that. WAKE UP!
This iPhone 5C hack is NOT what was ordered in the Court Order. . . and is a "retail" one-at-a-time, sophisticated skill and equipment intensive technique that is not applicable to a universal attack on multiple iOS devices, which is what was possible with what the Court Ordered software development approach dictated, regardless of what YOU claim in your delusional claim of what the order said.
It was imperative that Apple fight that ill-conceived Court Order written by the FBI intended to give them a precedent in law to allow them to dictate that any American must bow down to authority at the drop of a governmental hat.