Transliteration... The feds tampered with the phone and apparently fucked up their own investigation.
> The idea was to force the iPhone 5C to auto-backup to Farookâs > iCloud account. With a legal court order, Apple can and does turn over > iCloud data. For some reason, Farook had not backed up the phone for > roughly six weeks prior to the attack. The executive said Apple does > not know whether the auto-backup was disabled or enabled, but he did > say that the previous iCloud backups, which were handed over to > investigators, were sporadic. > > Apple suggested that the FBI take the iPhone 5C, plug it into a wall, > connect it to a known Wi-Fi network and leave it overnight. The FBI > took the phone to the San Bernardino County Health Department, where > Farook worked prior to the December 2, 2015 attack. > > When that attempt did not work, Apple was mystified, but soon found > out that the Apple ID account password had been changed shortly after > the phone was in the custody of law enforcement, possibly by someone > from the county health department. With no way to enter the new > password on the locked phone, even attempting an auto-backup was > impossible. Had this iCloud auto-backup method actually functioned, > Apple would have been easily able to assist the FBI with its > investigation. > > The executive only revealed this detail to reporters now because it > had thought it was under a confidentiality agreement with the > government. Apple seems to believe this agreement is now void since > the government brought it up in a public court filing. > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/apple-we-tried-to-help-fbi-terror-probe-but-someone-changed-icloud-password/ -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them"
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