[Cryptography] Wired: "How the Feds Could Get Into iPhones Without Apple’s Help"

[John Levine]

>"[A]ccording to experts who spoke with WIRED, that’s not necessarily
>the case. They say there are ways the government can extract data on
>phones without Apple’s help, from using outside contractors to asking
>its friends at the NSA—ways that it has, in fact, already used in the
>past.

In the recent New York decision, the judge cites a case in which the
FBI said they could unlock an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1.2.  He then asked
them why they said they couldn't unlock one with iOS 7, their answer
was what you'd expect, and the judge found their assertions
"unreliable."

R's,
John