change edition: Local government move made taking Apple to court inevitable Tech giant contends enabling access would violate user trust The development matters because the change made to the account – a reset of Farook's iCloud password – made it impossible to see if there was another way to get access to data on the shooter's iPhone without taking Apple to court. "The county was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI's request," read a post on San Bernardino County's official Twitter account. Late on 20 February the FBI said that it "worked with" county officials to reset the iCloud password, as discovery of the locked phone was "a logical next step was to obtain access to iCloud backups for the phone in order to obtain evidence related to the investigation in the days following the attack," according to the statement from an FBI spokesman. On 16 February,
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