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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by s_q_b on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:57AM (#11310956)
Apple has quarter trillion dollars of cash on hand. Without calculating interest or expected value, at 100k a day, Apple could hold out for over a millennium.

I'm sure Apple has a legal army gaming out each one of these scenarios.

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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by acqq on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:23AM (#11311950)
> Apple could hold out for over a millennium.

No, it doesn't work that way (see the post from dolske 7 hours ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11310214

Under these rules in only a few months all the money would be gone.

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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by s_q_b on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:20AM (#11312339)
My point was that Apple swings a big stick in this argument.
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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by kabdib on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:23AM (#11311951)
$250B can buy a lot of members of congress.
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