In the days after the December 2015 massacre in San Bernardino, California the iPhone left behind by one of the shooters was secretly flown to the FBI’s laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.
The FBI had been unable to review the phone’s contents due to a security
feature
Apple fought a court order "to help authorities bypass the security feature". Apple maintained the U.S. government was asking it to create a "backdoor" into its devices.
One company officials demonstrated their technology and the FBI greenlighted applying it to the phone. "the FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on" the phone, according to the Justice Department. The court case is withdrawn. Apple did not play a part in finding the solution.
The shoe is now on the other foot. Just a thought.
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