From this article in the New York Times:
“Courts should be skeptical going forward when the government claims it has no other option besides compelling a device maker’s assistance,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
“Now that the F.B.I. has accessed this iPhone, it should disclose the method for doing so to Apple,” she added. “Apple ought to have the chance to fix that security issue, which likely affects many other iPhones.”
The FBI is faced with a choice between making iPhones safer from hackers or keeping a cracking technique to themselves that they know is in the wild.
Which side will they choose? We’ll know soon enough.
Except we don’t know that they used a vulnerability; in fact, most speculation suggests they didn’t.
Not only will they not share the exploit with Apple, they also won’t tell anyone if there was any useful information on the phone making all this effort worthwhile.
Just as important.. did they actually get any useful data off the phone..
For all this hype, was their anything of value on that phone. I’m betting, no.
We’ll never know.
Praying for? They’re the folks who have been instigating the attacks wherein they pressure some sucker into an “attack” and then bust them and claim success.
Whatever they used is, by definition, a vulnerability.
Agreed, given their previous lying behaviour, nor we will we ever know for sure if :
The lies started from the very beginning (maybe they should be renamed the FIB). We know some of the obvious ones because of their documented admissions to the contrary, that it was ‘just about this phone’ and ‘not asking for a backdoor’ and “need Apple’s help’. It is therefore difficult to conclude by their past lies that this is the end of it, they’ll be back.