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Re:FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor by wildmusings on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:38AM (#11395029)
If the government gets a search warrant and seizes a safe from your home, they don't need the safe-maker's permission to crack it open.
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Re:FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor by teacup50 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:04AM (#11395290)
They would if the safe was purely digital, based on vendor-controlled platform DRM that granted the vendor and only the vendor additional access to the safe.
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