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Originally Posted by
4Dragons
Look at it from a different angle for a moment, would you?
If a group of random hackers that had no government backing hacked Apple products, Apple would not only want to know how their product was hacked, they would want those who did it prosecuted.
But this wasn't a criminal act. This was the government using their own tactics to get into the phone when Apple refused to help.
At that point, the government had no choice but to resort to whichever tactics necessary to break in themselves (or pay someone else to do it).
Now Apple deserves nothing.
Refuse to cooperate with the government, and the government will refuse to cooperate with you. Seems totally fair to me.
Had Apple not taken this assholish stance in the first place, the government could have been a symbiotic partner in security, rather than an adversary.