![]() ![]() ![]() 16 the FBI both escalated and went public, obtaining a court order from a federal judge that required Apple to create GovtOS under something called the All Writs Act. We thought about all the things you would think we would think about.” The decision, when it came, was no.Ĭook actually thought that might be the end of it. It wasn’t just me sitting in a room somewhere deciding that way, it was a labored decision. “We had long discussions about that internally, when they asked us,” Cook says. Inside Apple this idea is nicknamed, not affectionately, GovtOS. The FBI could brute-force that in a day and everybody could go home. That’s when the FBI made a further request: O.K., Apple didn’t have the pass code, but maybe it could code up a new version of iOS 9 without the 10-guess limit (and without enforced pauses between guesses, another security measure) and then persuade the San Bernardino phone to install it? A four-digit pass code has only 10,000 possibilities. And as it turned out, they came back and said, Well, that didn’t work.” It emerged that resetting the iCloud password had been a serious tactical error: they could’ve gotten the phone to make a fresh backup of itself automatically, but once you change the iCloud password, it won’t back itself up without the pass code. “We gave them some unsolicited advice–we said, take the phone to the home or apartment and power it, plug it in and let it back up. There was plenty of cordial back-and-forth, exchanges of information and know-how. To be clear: Apple complied with, and actively assisted, the FBI’s investigation, right up until it didn’t. MORE: The Full Transcript of TIME’s Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook It’s dark, with curtains drawn, but the nameplate is still there. It’s a modest office, an askew trapezoid, almost ostentatiously unostentatious, with a few framed “Think Different” posters on the walls, some arty photographs of Apple stores and a large wooden plaque with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt on it (the “daring greatly” one). We spoke in his office at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino–the address, famously, is 1 Infinite Loop. At 55, Cook is wiry and silver-haired, with an Alabama accent that he has carefully transplanted to Silicon Valley. ![]()
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