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FBI ends second iPhone fight after someone, um, 'remembers' the PIN

Zolko Silver badge

Re: Some thoughts

the only people who think the FBI has a case here are those who stand to gain from Government over reach.

actually, I don't understand:

If I'm a convicted and dead murderer, and the FBI finds in my house a vault that they want to open, would the manufacturer of the vault have to help the FBI open the vault ? Suppose it has a numerical lock, which they cannot open since I'm dead and they don't know the code, but the manufacturer knows a way to disable the built-in self-destruct mechanism so the FBI can brute-force themselves in, would they have to help ?

Is that any different than the Apple-vs-FBI case ? Keyword being convicted murder not merely accused.

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