U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone

Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by downandout on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:00PM (#11378156)

>a negative ruling wouldn't have been an insurmountable problem

It was setting them up for a precedent-setting legal decision in a higher court that may very well have not gone the government's way.

>they couldn't proceed without lying to the court

You're assuming that this mysterious third party that showed up the day before the initial hearing with a method to crack the phone actually exists, and that this method was successful. That is certainly a possibility, but it is also possible that they never intended to see this through and hoped that they could intimidate Apple into doing exactly what they wanted.

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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by GraemeLion on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:18PM (#11378251)

There were rumblings about a company that could do this weeks ago. Snowden brought up it was possible, and likely even hit upon the method.

I think the "mysterious third party" absolutely exists. I just think that the plan all along was to compel apple to do this, and then fall back on this if Apple pushed.

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