The List Of 12 Other Cases Where The DOJ Has Demanded Apple Help It Hack Into iPhones
Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Last night it came out that even the DOJ is making similar requests in 12 other cases. And now, the full list of such cases has come out.
That lends tremendous weight to the idea that not only is the FBI desperately seeking to set a precedent, but it was waiting for a case with "good PR optics" to go public with, so that it could pull on some heart strings to get the public on its side. The high profile "terror" case in which a bunch of people were murdered in cold blood apparently was the perfect case.
If any officials promise that there will only be a single, limited special case that never will happen again, that's what they really mean.