Apple designs their products that way, while I do believe they should have helped the FBI I do also believe in our rights to privacy. If you put a password into an apple product too many times incorrectly it will either 1, lock up the phone and require you to plug it to a computer or 2, erase the device. The iPhone in question was set up to erase the device. Unless the phone was backed up, and I will admit I did not read too much into this story, they can't help because that is the way it is set up.TexasTornado wrote:Nope. I believe they SHOULD have helped the FBI. The account holder asked them to unlock it, the FBI asked them to unlock it. The guy who had physical possession was dead. Lives were potentially at stake. This one should have been a no-brainer IMO. If the account holder had said no, I'd be singing a different tune.
There is a thin line between privacy and national security that I do not want to touch.
