This post provides an update on the ongoing battle between Apple and the U.S. government regarding Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone, recovered by police after the horrific massacre in San Bernadino on December 2, 2015.
It is just days before the March 22, 2016 hearing in this long-running, highly publicized dispute between the FBI and Apple, with the FBI’s demands of Apple being variously termed “jailbreak”, put a backdoor into, brute force access, compromise security of, or any number of other descriptors, in the case officially known as In the Matter of the Search of an Apple iPhone Seized During the Execution of a Search Warrant on a Black Lexus IS300, California License Plate 35KGD203. It is a good time, amongst all the massive press coverage and legal wrangling, to get back to some of the basics of the legal proceedings.