FBI has now withdrawn their case b/c they claim they hacked the phone without Apple's help.
so, did Apple win or lose? The FBI probably won outright, they got the data and moreover now apparently have a technique to hack any such phone as they desire.
But Apple?
Well they took a stand that about 45-50% of the population supported. So that's OK, but not a win b/c the other half think they were wrong.
But IMO they lost big time on this: a lot of their positive was that they were standing up for the privacy AND SECURITY of their customers, and now apparently that security has been breached. so their fear that they'd write code to disable the auto-destruct would somehow get loose seems minor to the fact that someone smarter than their engineers found a way to break their security outright.
And that's no surprise. No such thing yet as a system that can't be hacked. That's in part why I never bought Apple's fear that their code would get into the wild, the wild is already filled with possibilities to hack their phones and the most obvious way, to get the Apple ID codes, is always as much an option as stealing any other Apple code, and that opens up every iphone on Earth.
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