&gt; To be clear, I&#x27;m against the backdoor, but as an engineer I know that Apple could give the data back if they wanted.<p>What do you know? How are you suggesting they can extract encrypted data that requires a passcode to decrypt when no existing version of iOS allows electronic brute forcing?<p>Tim&#x27;s already attested that they don&#x27;t know any other way to access the data:
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