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US govt says it has cracked killer's iPhone, legs it from Apple fight

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Re: And now this is the worst

"What was being resisted was (a) a tool that could be routinely used (e.g. during police stop & search or temporary unauthorized access to a phone)...

That's not something that was ever being asked for, nor is it something that it would have been reasonable to believe was possible."

You don't think so? Not necessarily in the first place. But having got a precedent in the bast case they could come up with the next step would be to widen it a little. And then a little more. And so on.

The other issue could have been that there's a precedent which only applies if the suspect is dead. Well, that's a circumstance that could be arranged...

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