On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

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The FBI dropping its request under the All Writs Act

https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-apple-191.pdf https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-apple-199.pdf They didn't "drop" their request, they asked and received time to play with the phone in their sandbox with their friends. The court actually went further and stayed order, perhaps pusuant to an Apple request for that in conference call. Regardless, ball's still in feds ballcourt, though they'd have a hard time pressing it for spite were it shown they have unlock solution in hand. A FOIA should be filed to discover for reference all "outside parties" contacting govt offering services and their proposed "methods" therein.

The iPhone 5 was not sold as being secure

Don't worry, they still have hundreds of phones to file new cases and/or make new law with. Unless... curiosly... the new "Hayden" style arguments coming from other govt forces and think tanks are for real and win out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HNnVcp6NYA (Or if you believe the iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3 is actually a top selling TOP SECRET tricked out scam, thereby making a quit acceptable.) Or the people and the cryptos win out.

this is not about concealing your porn

Regarding a lot of users and media, it's actually quite a bit and rather effective about "seeing my dick", etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw