Apple helped the DOJ write a court order compelling it to unlock an iPhone in 2008 – WSJ<div class="feat-image">
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<p>The
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/roots-of-apple-fbi-standoff-reach-back-to-2008-case-1460052008" target="_blank">WSJ[/url] has illustrated the stark contrast in Apple’s attitude to assisting law enforcement to access iPhones before and after the <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/tag/prism/" target="_blank">Snowden revelations[/url] about mass surveillance of private data. It was already known that Apple had helped access more than 70 pre-iOS 8 iPhones, and the paper today reports that – in the earliest known case – the company went as far as drafting the language for the court order.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Lawyers and investigators involved in the 2008 prosecution of Amanda and Christopher Jansen, a young married couple from Watertown, N.Y., remember it as one of the most horrific cases of child sex abuse they had ever seen.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">History may remember it for another reason. It is believed to be the first case of a federal judge ordering Apple to assist the government in unlocking an iPhone—and the technology giant not only complied; it helped prosecutors draft the court order requiring it to do so … </span></p>
<p class="p2"> <a href="
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