“Last week, the FBI had filed with the court, describing Apple’s court-borne resistance to complying with its unlock order as ‘corrosive rhetoric,'” Greg Kumparak and Matthew Panzarino report for TechCrunch. “Apple responded immediately, characterizing the FBI’s filing as ‘an indictment.’ Basically, both sides had gotten to the openly hostile portion of these proceedings. During a call last week about the filing, Apple executives, including general counsel Bruce Sewell, spoke in a way that can be best characterized as surprised and outraged. The FBI’s tone shift from legal argument to character assassination in its filings had clearly taken Apple off guard.”
“The tone of today’s filing and subsequent call was much more cold and precise,” Kumparak and Panzarino report. “Apple got some time to consider the best way to respond and went with dissecting the FBI’s technical arguments in a series of precise testimonies by its experts.
“Where the FBI filing last week relied on invective, Apple’s this week relies on poking holes in critical sections of the FBI’s technical narrative,” Kumparak and Panzarino report. “Apple also pokes holes in two technical arguments that the FBI has been trying to make. First, that the iCloud backups are encrypted with the device passcode. They are not, as pretty much any security expert or even reporter on this case knows.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The portions of the U.S. government that have foolishly decided to launch this case and those who back such overreach, including Obama, are feckless and deceitful, to say the least.
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