dr hawk

One fun piece of irony from all this could be what Apple is forced to create two types of iPhone: 1) American back door accessible version and 2) secure international version.

US laws do not apply to international sales and the government cannot mandate outside its jurisdiction so this could in fact be a double edged sword for US Law enforcement as such.

Ultimately, because he didn't destroy his 'work' phone and did destroy his 'personal' phone I would think that he in fact had any useful information on his 'personal' phone and the work phone will have nothing of use on it.

..and a final point, if the shooter was known to law enforcement and they did nothing, what does getting retrospective information do to help stop other terrorists?

Unfortunately the innocent people of San Bernadino are deceased and creating this precedent (and thats all it is) is a very high price to pay. If the no privacy to prevent terrorism advocates are so gungho about it, do they ever send their mail via post card or use an envelope? Do you bank online with SSL encryption on or off (well the bank mandates its on). We all have information that we do not want others to access so building the proverbial back door is very problematic and disturbing.

Cheers Dr Hawk