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Apple fires legal salvo at FBI for using All Writs law in iPhone brouhaha

tom dial Silver badge

Re: safe cracking

One omission: in the analogy, only the safe company be able to use the tool. Burglars would not, unless they can acquire whatever it takes to use the tool along with the tool and its documentation.

One slight misstatement: in the analogy, the FBI did not reset the safe combination. Nothing in the physical safe analogy corresponds to what the county or FBI did. There is no such thing as an off-site backup to the safe contents.

A second misstatement, as to the order: every such order, by the nature of such orders, is almost sure to speak to exactly one device. It is known that there was at least one other, and probably a dozen or so previous ones, each speaking to exactly one device, and that the Manhattan DA claims 175 iPhones, each of which is likely to be the subject of a nearly identical one-device order if the government succeeds.

These are largely immaterial to the case at hand and, as such, are emotion laden noise.

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