Question about the FBI-Apple-iPhone case.

[DetlefK]

Why did the FBI change the password of the iPhone to begin with?

I have read something, they wanted force the iPhone into synching up with the iCloud, but why didn't the FBI do this properly?
Why didn't they read the manual?
Why didn't they consult Apple to ask in advance whether this would work?

Before tampering with a stolen Smartphone like an ordinary thief, shouldn't they have taken precautions?

[awake]

1. They did want to get any information what they really wanted was..

To get a code to break in to any iPhone. They are using the fear of "terrorists" to try and get what they really want as usual

[randome]

2. Someone changed the password for synching with the cloud.

I believe it was at the FBI's request but it was done incorrectly by a county employee and no one knows the password now.

Did you really think the FBI is chock-full of drooling idiots who don't know how to read a manual?
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[DetlefK]

3. Well, what made them think that their method would work?

And as to the competence of the FBI:
These are the guys who concoct terror-plots, talk disgruntled and mentally defective people into joining those terror-plots, and then boast that they prevented a terror-plot.

[randome]

4. You're conflating your distaste of them with competence.

Not a good strategy, imo. The FBI has 36,000 employees. I think it's fair to assume that some of them are actually quite brilliant. And some not nearly so. But it's a large organization. And wanting to search a terrorist's phone seems like common-sense to me, actually.

Why should a phone be treated any differently than any other personal property -searchable with a legal warrant?

And as I said, I believe it was the county employee (the county owns the phone, btw) who did it incorrectly.
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