And after all the kerfuffle....

[Bambino]

The FBI haven't found anything on the iPhone.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-hack-legal-ownership-no-value/

[jonsie]

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@Bambino wrote:

The FBI haven't found anything on the iPhone.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-hack-legal-ownership-no-value/

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They probably screwed the phone trying to hack it....

[Cleoriff]

Quite upsetting if honest. The hack would have been justified if they found something....

As it stands they will have NO chance of getting into another one....

[viridis]

They may, Apple have no idea at all how it was hacked. And now the fbi do atm have a key to iPhones back door.
However, if apple had just unlocked it for them......

[Cleoriff]

Yes...I forgot that...a back door hacker was brought in.....Good.

Apple, of course, will claim vociferously they were in the right.....

[gindygoo]

Tbqh I kinda expected them to find nothing. I think this was more of a test case to get a permanent "set of keys" for iPhones. It was so prominent in the media that somebody somewhere was going to come forth with a hack/backdoor key.

Does anyone else think that this was more than meets the eye? The FBI have been having to go to Apple every time they wanted to get into an iPhone and it's records... I think it's quite possible this was just to circumvent that in future.

[viridis]

Personally I couldn't care less if the fbi have keys to iPhones in their physical possession.
To have the phones in the evidence locker, someone's done something wrong.
Its a sick world we live in now and protecting the wrong side really put apple down in my book.

[Bambino]

I think you'll have to put them all in your bad book @viridis, as Microsoft and Google supported Apple's side.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/microsoft-says-it-will-file-an-amicus-brief-to-sup...

[viridis]

I know, but I still would like to think that the less terrorists, drug dealers, paedophiles and the like who are digitally protected by these companies the better.
Which is exactly why laws need to be addressed and not danced round by govt law making bodies.

[Cleoriff]

Also I think Microsoft and Google were protecting themselves (for the future) rather than supporting Apple...

They probably decided it wouldn't do their sales figures much good if they were seen to be in agreement with 'handing over' unlock codes to government agencies..