Apple letter about FBI
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- County officials tried to unlock the phone and reset the password
- This essentially locked the phone, the phone would have backed up automatically if they didnt try
- Once it's in reset password mode, unless correct password is entered, it will not automatically backup apple's server
- Existing backup uploaded to apple's server has been provided to FBI
- Apple sent engineer to help to unlock the phone but it was too late
- Only option is for apple to provide firmware update (allowing brute force without 80ms delay, unlimited tries and direct to device) and this only works up to iphone 5
- iphone 6 and up has the certificate built in to the hardware hence no firmware update will ever change anything once the phone is locked
- FBI wants apple to stop making hardware infused security measures