re: #198 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

The order is for Apple to provide reasonable technical assistance to unlock that phone, not to give the government a backdoor code or software key that would unlock all iphones that would then be used all over the world.

Well, it pretty much is.

The order is to provide a signed firmware that can be loaded into any model of that phone, which then removes the delay on trying different passcodes, and removes the “delete all data, if too many invalid passcodes are entered” feature.

That firmware could be used without getting a new court order each time.

So it really isn’t just “unlock this one phone”.