Ken Ray on his Mac OS Ken podcast for March 29, 2018:
At the time the agency (FBI) said Apple was its only shot at getting into the phone. Now, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General has released a report that says the FBI didn’t do everything it could to find a solution before seeking a court order against Apple.
No real surprise there. This is just another case of Maslow’s Hammer (“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”)–we all know how very adept the government is at seeing everything and everyone as a nail…