How Apple Helped Me Crack iPhones Like Clockwork
- Ex-prosecutor describes the routine: Send phone, get data
- Was it a 'back door' even then? Can Cook show it's more now?
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For years, cops who wanted to break into iPhones knew the drill.
“Get a warrant. Then you make an application under the All Writs Act,” said Michael Yaeger, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn who oversaw efforts to obtain warrants for phones from about 2012 to 2014. The All Writs Act is a catch-all law prosecutors use to get court orders to enforce search warrants.