I wasn't clear Ryck, sorry. It wasn't directly related to Alternaut's post, it was the bigger issue, because the onnes was consequently put on Apple, a private sector company, for making a product that the public thinks needs to be changed for law enforcement reasons. A Business Week headline as recently as yesterday said a poll showed over 50% of the public still believes Apple should unlock the phone. Even if they understood what happened, I don't think that would change anything. It doesn't matter if it was his work phone and every precaution got botched, why wouldn't this "we are protecting you" attitude extend to any computer that uses an unrecoverable flash drive that was not backed up to a cloud service. That was what happened to his personal phone as far as we know.

Clearly, the FBI, much more seriously, 'botched the job' than the San Bernardino police.

Last edited by slolerner; 02/23/16 12:09 PM. Reason: clarity