On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:41 PM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > There is also the question of how much force Apple is using to get this > done, it's not beyond them to use a hammer when none is needed.
I believe that Apple Corp. is a commercial partner in the element of law enforcement that was used to conduct this raid. If that is the case, then perhaps Apple is capable of convincing law enforcement to enter into activities that they would normally be more circumspect about. It also appears as though the iPhone in question had already been returned to Apple Corp., so it is not as if that raid was conducted in order to retrieve property that had been reported as stolen or otherwise illegally obtained. I do not believe that anyone was arrested either or charged with any crime. At any rate, the raid may have been primarily retaliatory in nature and the message seems to be that anyone who gets hold of any device that Apple has not as yet released to the public may well be subject to a similar fate be they guilty of a crime or not. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
