"taxed and spent" writes:

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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On 3/29/2016 7:10 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
Micky wrote in
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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.

... thereby breaking the chain of custody, and rendering any information
retrieved by Apple
completely useless for any criminal prosecution -- so says an attorney I
heard discussing the
case on the radio a couple of weeks ago.


Who they going to prosecute? The dead terrorist? What they need to know
is what else may be planned and who is involved. I personally don't care
about chain of custody if they pull a bomb out or the garage down the
street from my house.

an as yet unknown accomplice. perhaps.



Given that the phone in question was issued by the county, and used for
work by the shooter, who had (and very completely destroyed) a personal
phone as well, it is _highly_ likely that they got nothing from it.