Arianrhod
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Why didn't the FBI go to the NSA to crack Apple's code? Some experts say the NSA could do it quickly. So what is the real motive to get Apple to write a code breaker key. Likely, it is an attempt by the FBI to get this case into court where a precedent can be set that would allow law enforcement agencies to force technology firms to comply with similar requests in the future. IN fact I heard something on the radio today indicating that the Justice Department has dropped the lawsuit and is now petitioning the NSA to crack the code.
The real motive? I'd call it the camel's nose. Get the perceived right to crack one code, you get the enforceable right to get into anyone's phone.
As for inter-agency squabbling, part of the reason the 9/11 hijackers slipped through the cracks is because the FBI and the CIA were not sharing data. It wouldn't be beyond the realm of the plausible to think that the FBI and the NSA have the same sort of internecine turf wars going on.