The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

Re:The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model by cryoshon on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:28AM (#16483165)

let's say you need a warrant to get X.

you use illegal methods to get X without a warrant. but you can't use that information legally. so you use your knowledge of X to find a legal way of learning X, after the fact.

then you go to the courts saying you found X the legal way.

but you didn't.

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Re:The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model by Chriky on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:48PM (#16489041)

I understand the theory thanks, I'm just disputing that this scenario is anything other than exceptionally rare. Parallel construction is used to protect sensitive sources, not cover up illegality.

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