Why FBI?
Q: Why is the FBI handling this in the first place? Both perps in the San Bernardino shootings had fairly recent foreign terrorist connections, or at least associations, and that makes it a national security issue/case, and therefore in the purview of the NSA. Now, NSA has far better and more divers talents in digital systems than either Apple or the FBI, plus cryptanalysts and the serious computer horsepower if needed, to access the contents of the phone in question. They likely already have models and simulations of all popular smart phones. It's not like the hardware of the iPhone is some kind of mystery, or decompiling OSs a new technology, or rocket science.
Why did the ex-head of the NSA, not a politically ignorant fellow, come out with his opinion this week? Quite possibly to head off the kind of push toward NSA that I suggest in my Q above. If they do have the abilities that I suspect they have, then they would not like to reveal that fact to anyone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
