Re: If ...
"If the FBI could get NSA to do the job why is there all this pressure on the Apple and all this fuss?"
Some people think the NSA could unlock this phone. This may or may not be true; let's assume it is true.
The NSA's job is to gather intelligence, not to help the FBI on their power trip. The NSA knows there is nothing of value on this phone. Helping the FBI by unlocking the phone would tell the world that the NSA can unlock iPhones. There is no way the NSA would allow this information to get out. It's much to valuable.
If the NSA unlocked some terrorist's phone and discovered let's say the identities of some other terrorists, then nobody would ever hear about that. But these terrorists would one by one be found in a routine search by coincidence, die in an unfortunate accident, disappear on a diving holiday, and so on. Nobody would ever find out that the NSA unlocked a phone. If the NSA unlocked this phone for the FBI, we'd see it on TV an hour later. And two hours later all terrorists in the world destroy their iPhones.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
