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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by enraged_camel on Monday March 28, 2016 @09:00PM (#11378794)
>>they hurt Apple's security reputation (most consumers will not understand or care that this happens to be an old iPhone with an old version of iOS - they will just hear or read that an iPhone was cracked)

And? What makes you think most consumers will care that the government cracked an iPhone?

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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by kamjam on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @04:11AM (#11380144)
Exactly. At _best_ most people will just say "well, it's the government, _of course_ they can crack it". If it was some 15 year old kid in his bedroom, then that's a different matter...
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