[telecom] Apple will reportedly unlock your iPhone for police, but there's a wait list

[Monty Solomon]

Apple will reportedly unlock your iPhone for police, but there's a wait list

The volume of requests has created at least a seven-week wait for law
enforcement.

by Andrew Cunningham
May 10 2013

If your smartphone is encrypted and protected by a long passcode,
you're going to keep most people from being able to get at the data
stored on it. However, companies like Apple and Google are being
asked by law enforcement officials to bypass these protections to aid
in investigations, and the frequency of requests is creating lengthy
wait lists-one agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives (ATF) was reportedly told by an Apple legal representative
that the agency would need to wait at least seven weeks to have a
phone unlocked.

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