On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:12:55 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

On 3/28/2016 7:54 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:36:17 -0500, "Dean Hoffman"
wrote:


The Justice Department has successfully gotten into the phone of the
California mass shooter. From the AP Big Story:
http://alturl.com/b9ixp
The lawsuit against Apple has been dropped.

Apple definitely lost this battle. They could have just cracked one
phone. Now the FBI has the key to crack them all.

FBI needs physical possession of the phone to crack it in this way.
The solution they wanted from Apple would have allowed them to PUSH
an update to any phone IN THE WILD and crack it remotely.

No, they didn't ask for that. In fact, though the FBI had the phone,
they were willing to give it to Apple to let them work on it and not
tell anyone else what they did.

FBI lost this battle. And, Apple can now work on other approaches
to make iPhone7 "impossible" for them to comply with ANY court
ordered mandates.

FBI was stupid in how they handled this one!