Katie Benner and Eric Lichtblau's article "U.S. Says It Has Unlocked iPhone Without Apple" was published by the New York Times on March 28, 2016. After a month of heated debate over the battle between privacy or security, the court case concerning Apple's refusal to unlock the phone of the San Bernardino shooter has abruptly come to an end with the news that the government has been able to unlock it without Apple's help. Although this does not signify an end to the underlying argument, it does bring a new issue to the table: Apple's security issue. So far, the FBI has not told Apple how they unlocked the phone. However, they have said that nothing of value has been found so far on the phone as of now.
This current event is a follow up to another one I wrote a week or two ago, written when the government announced that a third party had come forward that might be able to unlock the phone. In reaction to this story, many people have shared their opinion that the government has not really unlocked the iPhone and is just saying that it has in order to win good publicity. Although I am not sure about this theory, I do believe that it is a little odd that they have not found anything of import yet on the phone and that they have not released their method of unlocking it to Apple. Hopefully the government will be more transparent as the investigation continues. It is weird to think about how trials like this one may soon be in history textbooks as defining Supreme Court cases about the role of technology in society and the government's relationship with it. These are new issues, and it is important that they are discussed thoroughly in order for the correct decision to be made.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/technology/apple-iphone-fbi-justice-department-case.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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