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FBI says it helped mess up that iPhone – the one it wants Apple to crack

tom dial Silver badge

Re: This is despicable.

Exactly so. It is not about search, or about surveillance, or privacy, or encryption. It is about authority, in the sense of the power to issue commands and expect obedience. The All Writs Act is a catch all meant to cover cases similar to this one where the government needs help that the laws do not otherwise provide for to do something a court authorized it to do.

Have an upvote for seeing the difference.

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