{"id":20874,"date":"2016-02-20T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2016-02-20T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:16:34","slug":"nytimes-apples-line-in-the-sand-was-over-a-year-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20874","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Apple\u2019s Line in the Sand Was Over a Year in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/19\/technology\/a-yearlong-road-to-a-standoff-with-the-fbi.html?action=click&#038;contentCollection=Technology&#038;module=RelatedCoverage&#038;region=Marginalia&#038;pgtype=article\">Apple\u2019s Line in the Sand Was Over a Year in the Making<\/a> by Matt Apuzoo, Joseph Goldstein and Eric Lichtblau:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Time and again after the introduction of the iPhone nearly a decade ago, the Justice Department asked Apple for help opening a locked phone. And nearly without fail, the company agreed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThen last fall, the company changed its mind. In a routine drug case in a Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors sought a court order demanding that Apple unlock a methamphetamine dealer\u2019s iPhone 5S running old, easy-to-unlock software. The company acknowledged that it could open the phone, as it had before. But this time, it pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re being forced to become an agent of law enforcement,\u201d the company\u2019s lawyer, Marc Zwillinger, protested in court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes; Apple\u2019s Line in the Sand Was Over a Year in the Making by Matt Apuzoo, Joseph Goldstein and Eric Lichtblau: WASHINGTON \u2014 Time and again after the introduction of the iPhone nearly a decade ago, the Justice Department asked &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20876,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions\/20876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}