emptywheel

There was something in the court documents - I think it was Apple's initial response - where they said FBI agents had powered it off after their initial attempts to get in were unsuccessful.

Yep. Didn't they exhaust login attempts?

I don't get it, are we saying DOJ lied here? They said it was found powered off.

I'm mobile so don't have any docs in front of me, but I'm almost 100% certain the screenshot you tweeted is false.

Weird. It's from the government's official sworn filing. That would be a felony.

oh my god I'm in a Twitter canoe of reporters who are grimly determined to get to the bottom of something that happened a year and a half ago and I can't get out

The only good thing about the SB case was the bar session we had that night for the sad-sack earlybirds who had arrived in SB before the hearing got cancelled.

I would read an oral history of that group of reporters discovering that DOJ was dropping the case while en route.